Sometimes the hilarious can turn serious fast. A case being brought to the Ontario Court of Appeals contains all the necessary elements for comedy: twins, a mistaken identity, lots of wine and sex. Such a set-up has turned ugly, as bitter questions of consent now pollute the otherwise humourous scenario known as The Old Switcheroo. In an unspecified southwestern Ontario city or town, an unspecified woman had sex with what she thought was her long-time lover. Turns out it was the lover's identical twin brother, who is now claiming that she gave proper consent. I do not wish to dwell ...Read More
What this essay is about: intimate moments with an eloquent dead gay Frenchman, JD Salinger, the kinds of books that are appropriate to read in different spaces, sharing public spaces, books as fashion accessories, public transit, racism.
Picture this: you are on a train full of people and you arrive at a busy stop where many people need to change vehicles to get where they are going. You are standing right in front of the doors; when they open the sea of people standing there parts and you walk through a tunnel of humans, their strange, impatient faces turned towards you. ...Read More
Ladies, gents, and gentiles, this is the first round of In-Fighting, where Steel Bananas columnists wrestle with their own. You may not know this, but we do bicker on occasion, and sometimes heated insults are exchanged, tears are shed, feelings hurt, sense is undone, forgotten, trampled in the dust. And then there’s the make-up orgy. So I figured, why not let the fight spill onto the front lawn for all to see? Perhaps the orgy should be made public as well. The jury’s still out on that.
The first target of my wrath is one Dennis (Danger-Dino the Dynamo, or, Chewable ...Read More
Does the above quote by Deleuze apply to Theatre? Or better yet: can it apply to theatre as an art form? I think it does apply. The state of contemporary theatre ranges roughly from the profit-driven musicals on Broadway to the more independent, thought-provoking theatre pieces. Yet theatre, as with any other art, is plagued by clichés. When Deleuze says “…it is first necessary to erase, to clean, to flatten, even to shred, so as to let in a breath of air from the chaos that brings us the vision,” he is undoubtedly referring to the need to escape clichéd ...Read More
