In the script for This Is Where We Live, Vancouver-born, Sydney-based playwright Vivienne Walsh plays with this specific dialect in a very poetic, fast-paced way. Especially in theatre, Aussie rhythms and slang command a different kind of attention. Even though the idea of an Australian living in Toronto isn’t all that unique on its own, there is something about the accent that is disproportionately enthralling. In this, one of the world’s most multicultural cities, the Australian accent still feels like a rare find. Jenna Harris and Tim Welham in This Is The Way We Live. These are the companies and artists we especially hope to see more from in the future-and you should, too.ġ0: The language of This Is The Way We Live There’s much overlap with our mid-festival reviews, of course, but we continued to see shows until the closing day, catching nearly three quarters of the entire festival. Here are some of our picks for the highlights of this year’s SummerWorks. A system of “tags” for future programming, with curators choosing the myriad categories their selections might fall into, would help audiences navigate the festival, especially online, where a few simple clicks could help patrons find their interests. This year’s festival featured exceptional curation from artist-selectors from a variety of backgrounds, and yet we suspect they were occasionally constrained by their series’ purviews. We saw concerts in the theatre series, and theatre in the dance series, and noted with some concern that some audience members missed out on seeing some of the best work in the festival because they were too focused on one particular area.Īrtistic Producer Michael Rubenfeld stated in an recent interview with the Toronto Star that he’d like to “ abandon categories altogether” and present the festival as one interdisciplinary program.
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If there was a takeaway from our festival experience, it was that the constraints of the various series-theatre, music, live art, and, new this year, dance, plus special presentations-are increasingly unnecessary. The SummerWorks Performance Festival celebrated its 25th year with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary creation, and our writers were thrilled at the results of discipline-defying artists collaborating with each other. The crowd at SummerWorks’ closing night awards and party.
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