Angela Sun is a Toronto-based fat East Asian performer, theatre creator, poet, and writer. She is currently a member of the environmental theatre company, Broadleaf Theatre. In her spare time she enjoys reading and writing about art, feminism, pop culture, identity, body image, mental health, and social justice. Ironically, she fell in love with Canadian theatre after seeing a televised production of Kristen Thomson’s I, Claudia on CBC. (She finally saw the remount on stage 5 years later and was over the moon.) You can follow her exploits on her sporadically-updated Twitter @21sungelas.
Puppet Macbeth is an “outstanding, fresh take” on Shakespearian tragedy in Toronto parks
This is not the first time that I’ve seen puppets speak the words of Shakespeare, but this is the first time that I’ve seen such a well-done Shakespearean puppet show for adults. With a winsome blend of humour and sorrow, Shakespeare in the Ruff’s Macbeth: Walking Shadowsis one of those productions that truly deserves to be called innovative in my opinion.
Choreographer Erin Hill does a fine job turning complex scientific inspiration into art in Radio Project, playing with Until Tender Crisp II as a part of the SummerWorks Dance series. Narrated and deejayed in the form of a radio show by Hill, the piece for two dancers merged scenes evoking the nostalgia of listening to the radio with choreography that mirrored the movement of the invisible but ubiquitous sound waves that surrounds us.
Let’s Not Beat Each Other To Death, playing as a part of SummerWorks‘ Special Presentation Series, destroyed me (in a very good way). An electronic cabaret dance party about the unceasing violence targeting the LGBTQ community, the show successfully combined all the elements of good social justice theatre with an especially unforgettable, heartfelt performance from writer/performer Stewart Legere.
To put it plainly, The PepTides’ LOVE+HATE (as a part of this year’s SummerWorks Theatre Series) is essentially a concert threaded together with skits about the two biggest emotional drivers that determine how we interact with the world around us: love and hate. And I guess there were also a few digs at pharmaceutical companies. While I may not have understood every lyric due to microphone issues, The PepTides’ upbeat energy was so infectious that I still had a fantastic time.
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