Theatre Local: Is this the first piece you’ve created specifically for a small audience? Émilie Gauvin: Yes. And what is appealing to me is the idea of sharing a secret, the possibility of recreating a kitchen family reunion, the direct interaction with the audience, the possibility we have to know each other by the end of the […]
Author: Rebecca Singh
Norman Yeung chats about his newest work “In this moment.”
Theatre Local: Tell us a bit about your piece: What’s it about? / What can people expect to see? Norman Yeung: I’m currently in a period of decluttering my life. Amidst the cacophony of too much communication and learning to be a more mature and responsible adult and changes to my personal and professional life… I […]
Lizzie Violet chats about Nuit Blanche
Theatre Local: Tell us a bit about your piece: What can people expect to see? Lizzie Violet: I will be reading a series of horror themed poems, part of which are from a series of Zombie poems I’ve written over the last 2 years. Since I will be doing a late night reading, I’m going to […]
Neema Bickersteth chats about her newest work “Sonic Spectrum”
Theatre Local: Tell us a bit about your piece, what’s it about? Neema Bickersteth: Sonic Spectrum is a basically a mini voice recital. ROY G BIV is the theme of this song grouping. I will be using my classical training but sometimes in non conventional ways. TL: What inspired you to create this piece? […]
Marjorie Chan chats about her newest work “Dim Sum Lose Some”
Theatre Local: Tell us a bit about your piece, what’s it about? Marjorie Chan: It’s dim sum which many people are familiar with. In my circle of friends, it is usually a time to reconnect. Since I am in Hong Kong, I thought I would explore an artistic recreation of that feeling even though I […]
We said yes to the dress! “Small Audiences” coming soon…
Dear Friends, Fans, and Followers, Thank you for your continued support! After the great success of “Tell YOUR Story” and “Canada’s Smallest Theatre” in 2011, we took some time to prepare our next set of projects. Proposals were written, calls were made and artists and producers were curated and networked. We had some tough challenges […]
50 Monologues
Theatre Local is proud to announce it’s latest project: 50 MONOLOGUES – a remix of Shakespeare’s monologues for women, performed by Rebecca Singh, who admittedly, is wrong for most of the parts. Directed by Jonathan Heppner and designed by Kimberly Purtell, this live performance offers an invigorating take on many of Shakespeare’s ‘greatest hits’. Presented […]
Elva Mai Hoover
With more than thirty years of experience, and countless credits to her name—fifty in film and television alone, plus extensive commercial, voice-work and theatrical projects, as well as four separate Gemini and Genie nominations—Elva Mai Hoover is the very definition of a working actor. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, she has […]
Small Audiences announced
“Small Audiences” just announced! View the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche website
VideoCabaret
VideoCabaret is one of Canada’s most inventive, prolific and celebrated theatre ensembles. The company’s founding playwrights Michael Hollingsworth and Deanne Taylor have created many enduring plays, and with renowned designers and actors have devised spectacularly original styles of performance — black-box epics, multi-media cabarets, musicals, opera, and masquerades. In Toronto 1976, VideoCabaret began to make […]
Rebecca Singh 