Apart from his (pathological?) obsession with airplane disasters, Istvan is a filmmaker and film enthusiast, but began his creative adventures in theatre. Starting out as an actor, he soon discovered a preference for life behind-the-scenes. He has experience in lighting design, stage management and production management, but his passion is writing and directing. With several short films and an indie feature under his belt, film has been his focus in recent years, but theatre has been calling him back. You see more of his critical writing at his film reflection blog: http://captiveviscera.wordpress.com/
Black Boys is “campy, joyful, and riotous”, on stage at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto
After a successful nation-wide tour, the 2016 hit Black Boys returns to Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. I never saw the first production, but it certainly left an impression on the theatre scene. All of us who missed it were appropriately disappointed. The Saga Collectif has returned with their exploration of queer male Blackness and, with it, your chance to partake in this dynamic and provocative experience before its two-week run is over. Continue reading Review: Black Boys (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)→
MDLSX, produced by Motus and featuring the intensely charismatic Silvia Calderoni, is presented by The Theatre Centre as part of the Progress Festival. It is deeply, forcefully compelling and extremely hard to define. Any attempt to label it and slot it neatly into a category seems both false and disrespectful. Calderoni’s performance is, in essence, an act of defiance—a valiant and passionate reaction to repressive conventions of labelling and categorization. Continue reading 2018 Progress Review: MDLSX (Motus)→
Black Boys is “campy, joyful, and riotous”, on stage at Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto
Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre presents Drew Hayden Taylor’s play; an uplifting piece of Canadiana
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