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E16: Ecodrama: Greening Theatre | Everyday Forum Podcast
Ecodrama is a new approach to telling stories about the climate crisis through live performance. It invites theatre companies to choose sustainable and decarbonizing pathways of production and provides a public forum for thinking about how to live through calamities with collective resilience and...
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Cymbeline
Movie + 3 extras
The Stratford Festival’s latest production of Cymbeline – one of the hits of the 2024 season. The play fuses romance, comedy and tragedy to create a unique fantasia brimming with mistaken identities and gender-swapping disguises. Cymbeline’s daughter, Innogen, one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated...
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E15: Shakespeare and the World | Everyday Forum Podcast
The work of Shakespeare is known across the globe, exploring universal experiences, lending itself to culturally specific adaptations, and being used as an instrument of imperialism. Join Rodrigo Beilfuss, Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Ruins, and PJ Prudat, Co-Artistic Director of Shake...
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E14: Raising The Curtain and Lowering Barriers: Accessible Theatre
What are theatres doing to welcome audiences (and artists) who have barriers to participating in performance arts? Join Stratford Festival’s former Accessibility Coordinator Kayla Besse, Disability Dramaturgy scholar Dr. Jessica Watkin and Theatre Passe Muraille Artistic Director Marjorie Chan in...
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E13: Fops & Dandies: A Social History of Men's Fashion | Everyday Forum Podcast
From Harcourt's "foppishness" to Zaza's sequins, men's fashion throughout history has been a source of oppression and an avenue for liberation. Join La Cage aux Folles costume designer David Boechler and London Assurance costume designer Francesca Callow, along with Nishi Bassi, curator and manag...
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E12: A Queen Prepares with Lemon from Canada's Drag Race |Everyday Forum Podcast
Multifaceted drag performer, model and dancer Lemon makes her Meighen Forum debut in this intimate and up-close conversation with actor and director Thom Allison. Lemon talks about her amazing journey from her hometown of Pickering, Ontario, to becoming the break-out star of both Canada’s Drag Ra...
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E11: Trans Families: An Interview w/ Kinley Mochrie, Colin Mochrie & Deb McGrath
In this beautiful story of family, identity and acceptance, join Kinley and her parents, Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath, as they discuss with moderator Rebecca Northan what it means to be a supportive family, from Kinley’s coming out journey to dealing with uninformed relatives and transphobic tro...
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Waiting for the Parade (1984)
Movie + 1 extra
Adapted for the screen by John Murrell from his acclaimed stage play of the same name, Waiting for the Parade tells the story of five Calgary women who respond very differently to civilian life during World War II, providing a portrait of Canadian society in the 40s through courage, humour and a ...