The Container is Interactive Theatre at its Activist Best
It’s that good. Here’s why.
Photo by Lauren Posloski.
Trevor Abes: Writer
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.
April 8, 2016
Coal Mine Theatre Slays With Killer Joe
My review of The Coal Mine Theatre’s production of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe.
“Killer Joe takes the radical humanist stance of affixing a domestic, sociological lens onto North American politics by getting to know the people threatening to make it great again. […] Years from now, this production should be remembered as a period piece, unabashedly of its time, all up in the chaos of history being written.”
Read it here.
Photo by Matt Campagna.
February 24, 2016
A Really Cool Workshop for Really Cool People
Happy to share that I’ll be facilitating a performance workshop this June in a month-long series alongside Jay MillAr, Liz Worth, Tabatha Stuhlmueller and the Toronto Arts Council. It’s $40 all-included. Grab a spot here.
February 12, 2016
Communicating Without Ego: Then They Fight Theatre’s Our Idiot Friend Is Now Dead
Photo by Cesar Ghisilieri Photography.
My review of this year’s 10/10/10 Project — Then They Fight Theatre’s Our Idiot Friend Is Now Dead — is up today in Sewer Lid Magazine.
Read it here.
February 6, 2016
Oh, Just Browsing
Part of my feature at Milton District High School for Mrs. Gleason’s 12th grade writer’s craft class poetry slam.
That cafeteria backdrop though.
Filmed by Michael Abes.
January 13, 2016
Family Dinner
A new poem, “Family Dinner,” performed at The Supermarket in Toronto. It’s also forthcoming in print in Rummaging for Words.
Trevor Abes: Writer 