;However you choose to read [Gender Failure ...], do yourself the favour of making sure it finds its way into your hands. You will undoubtedly laugh a bit when you read it, but you might also want to have a tissue handy, in the event of an errant tear. And when Coyote and Spoon return to Halifax this spring, you should most certainly plan to be there to hear them have the Gender Failure conversation in real time."
Only Pasha Ebrahimi in the title role seemed to be genuinely trying to act the play that Marlowe wrote.
an interesting story is well told; good actors are playing intriguing characters; a genuinely smart script made us both think and laugh.
This was my first time reading anything by author Liz Bugg, an actor and teacher from Saskatchewan, now living in Toronto liked this book so much that I will be checking her listings in future and looking up her previous novels in this series." - Denise Holiday
"For queers who have wrestled with internalized homophobia, Laurie's youthful blindphobia provides a startling parallel. Her happy awakening to her true self as a lesbian is communicated with sensitivity and passion. Being gay is as natural to her as blindness."
Thom Fitzgerald is a busy, busy man! In addition to almost single-handedly saving the Atlantic Fringe Festival, last year Nova Scotia's premiere queer film auteur toured the world with his film, Cloudburst, winning 'Audience Choice' awards at festival after festival. Last fall, he began producing the first of two pilot television series, both of which will feature queer characters and content. Forgive Me premieres tonight and it's getting raves!
FRINGE FEST REVIEWS: Phaedra's Bed; Understudy; Unsex'd.
Ms. Zaman and Ms. Latiff have important, beautiful, witty, and graceful things to share with us. I hope Halifax audiences will avail themselves of the opportunity to listen.
"What The God That Comes achieves, through the medium of rock and roll and Hawksley Workman's remarkable performance, is a visceral connection betwen this strange, ancient tale and its modern audience. No small feat and well worth the price of admission!"
The best I can say about Tournament of Lies, a new play by Evan Brown, is that it generated a lot of discussion
