Writing (About) Other People: Notional Ekphrasis and Parafiction in the Hospital Gift Shop
An essay about a book of poetry I’m working on recently went up in The Town Crier. Have a look here.
Trevor Abes: Writer
February 16, 2017
Review: Save Room for Superior Donuts
Here’s my review of Coal Mine Theatre’s Superior Donuts! On til Feb 26. Read it here on The Theatre Reader.
Poster by Kostis Petridis.
January 9, 2017
Review: Clique Claque at Toronto’s Next Stage Theatre Festival
Here’s my review for Pea Green Theatre Group’s Clique Claque. On til January 15th as part of Toronto’s Next Stage Theatre Festival.
Watch it here.
December 2, 2016
Theatre Review: Shelf Life Compels Audiences To Act As Communities
My favorite play of the year. Review here.
September 13, 2016
LiterArti 2016 #PoetryInThePark
I’ll be reading new poems at LiterArti at Wychwood Park on September 24th!
September 2, 2016
The Container is Interactive Theatre at its Activist Best
It’s that good. Here’s why.
Photo by Lauren Posloski.
August 13, 2016
This is the August: A Caring and Uncompromising Look at the Viral Age
Still a couple shows left for This is the August at SummerWorks 2016. I’m still reminiscing about this play 10 days after the fact. Here’s my review.
July 15, 2016
August 6th: The Love Poetry Festival
I’ll be reading poems August 6th on Toronto’s Centre Island with some poets I really admire.
June 5, 2016
Instructions: An Odd Couple Parable That Challenges And Delights
My review of Instructions (To Any Future Socialist Government Wishing To Abolish Christmas) is up on The Theatre Reader.
Check it here.
May 27, 2016
Markowiak’s Lemon Tells The Young Adult Blues
My review of Andrew Markowiak’s LEMON, produced by Filament Incubator. Read it in Sewer Lid Magazine.
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May 2, 2016
Theatre of the Oppressed: Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom
My review of Jordan Tannahill’s double bill in The Theatre Reader.
Botticelli in the Fire “[tames] political and religious fundamentalism into conquerable myths.”
Sunday in Sodom “is an act of reclamation that lives up to the proportions of the book it comes from.”
Read it here.
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
