The Plutonium Playhouse’s second annual Sex Festival (click for full listings and ticket info) steams up February. Get to the shows early, as year had sold out crowds. Why? Because people love sex. The festival is “a series of plays, readings, photos, music and videos that explore sex, sexuality, relationships, gender and the human body,” […]
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Cara Sawka knows what it’s all about
Cara Sawka’s newest exhibit was born out of an email subject line. While teaching at a music camp, the Regina native began collecting the teaching philosophies of various musicians, and it was the wise words of Nashville fiddle-player Buddy Spicher that resonated with her for years. The subject of his email read “IT’S NOT ALL […]
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Holes in one at The Asshole Monologues
It was almost a year ago that writer and Coast contributor Jane Kansas first got the idea to write a play about anuses. “I’d been in a couple of productions of The Vagina Monologues, and I thought that the idea of The Asshole Monologues could be sort of the same, but funnier,” she explains in […]
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Best New Theatre
“When something is the only something then it’s like you’re my best mom,” notes filmmaker and theatre owner Thom Fitzgerald on our choice to anoint Plutonium Playhouse with this recognition, Best New Theatre. “Faint praise is how it could be taken in context.” Well, that’s fair. There have not been many other theatre spaces that […]
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Lee-Anne Poole Splinters off
Don’t let the plot fool you: Splinters is not based on a true story. It’s just a story that happens to be true. “The actual events of the play are not autobiographical,” insists playwright Lee-Anne Poole. “Besides the fact that, you know, I have experienced some of them.” She calls Splinters, opening at the Plutonium […]
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Curtains open for Cloudburst
“I don’t know what form something will take when I start to write,” says Thom Fitzgerald, the award-winning filmmaker of movies such as The Hanging Garden, The Event and 3 Needles. “I start with a thought, and it usually becomes a bunch of dialogue…I just seem to write in dialogue.” This may explain why his […]
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Plutonium Playhouse is going to blow up
Hunter Street has quietly become another cultural hub in city, thanks to fashion and art events at the Olympic Centre, plus the drums that keep me company as I walk home past the Rock Garden and Common Ground Studios. And now here comes Plutonium Playhouse, located above Long & McQuade (2315 Hunter), ready to blow […]
