Michael Healey

Hey thanks!

can sleep. I care deeply and passionately about this place and you must address yourselves to your consciences and your hearts.”

he shouted at Robert Hicks, then president of the board of directors. “We have spent our lives in this theatre, we have given of our time and we care about art. You talk to us about money all the time. You have no morals. I don’t know how you

British director John Dexter. At the annual general meeting in December, with the board sitting on the stage of the Festival Theatre, Mr Monette jumped up from his seat in the theatre, outraged by behaviour he considered conniving and unethical. “You pig!”

“…Monette made headlines of a different sort when he blasted Stratford’s board of governors in the chaos after Phillips’ 1980 resignation as AD, the subsequent summary firing of a [Canadian] four-person directorate slated to replace him, and the appointment of

The following is from Sandra Martin’s extraordinary obituary for Richard Monette in the Globe and Mail. Posting this now for no particular reason:

That is an EXTREMELY well-edited piece.

Thanks. See you soon I bet.

Time goes one way mister

Thousand Islands Playhouse, Gananoque

On the left: Tom Barnett in The Drawer Boy, with David Fox, 1999. On the right, Tom Barnett in The Drawer Boy, playing the part Fox originated, 2025

I turn 62 next week. I believe the best moment of my life was discovering a copy of the Stratford Festival’s production of The Mikado in the martial arts section of my local video store.

I was a bartender and listened to idiots making idiotic points while being unable to leave or shut them up so I’ll pass on the Jubilee debate thing

I spent the last couple of days watching a lot of the content over at the Canadian Theatre Museum site and my conclusion is that Canadian playwrights are, collectively, a bunch of sickos.

YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum Brad Fraser on “Wolf Boy”, his first professional play

Once a cockroach fell on Brad Fraser

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEcZ...

YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum Judith Thompson on sitcom theatre (Part 9 of 12)

Judith Thompson is a boss

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N3n...

😍 This is clearly the problem. Tone it down over there.

Where do I keep my testicles?

You wouldn’t even be top three over there

YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum Linda Griffiths on Creation, Purpose and Meaning (Part 5 of 17)

The moment Linda Griffiths became an artist

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPqZ...

@danielmacivor.ca why aren’t you in this database of interviews

YouTube video by Canada's Theatre Museum George F. Walker on television (Part 1 of 14)

For no particular reason except he’s a genius, here’s a bit of George Walker interviewed for the Canadian Theatre Museum

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hLO...

I have Leafs fever!*

*meaning terrible allergies

More work for her twin perhaps

This is an old mossy turtle that was on the golf course today

The results are in

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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement