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<title>chickenvandoodle</title>
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It's not in Mirvish's mandate to produce Canadian theatre.  If that were the case, he'd turn into not-for-profit.  I think arts people need to accept the fact that David Mirvish is a COMMERCIAL producer and that we should not expect him to be producing Canadian theatre.  We keep complaining about commercial producers, but since when is it their obligation to be producing commercially unappealing Canadian theatre?  Do you really think our city's theatre scene would be where it is now had it not been for the big blockbuster musicals? Our theatre scene is saturated enough with Canadian playwrights.

Let's stop complaining, people. We have the works of Canadian playwrights being produced all the time. Do the Factory, Tarragon, Passe Muraille theatres ring a bell? We just need to get off our high horse and actually attend those plays instead of waiting for them to be produced at The Canadian Stage Company or the Royal Alexandra Theatre, since that's what everybody thinks will validate Canadian plays.

It's a vicious circle.  Torontonians are looking for quality theatre, but yet they won't even support their own indie theatres where new works are being produced.  As a result, the indie theatres get poorer and run into bigger deficits, and smaller resources for nurturing and producing playwrights.  And we all wonder why we're not getting 'better' plays?

Sheesh.]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:27:19 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Benc7</title>
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I'm not that worried; Canadian Stage will re-focus on its identity again.  Theatre groups are like people and this one is having a mid-life crisis. What we need are GOOD Canadian playwrights to be given a chance to show how GOOD they can be.  Tarragon does it, Soulpepper does it, Factory does it, Buddies in Bad Times does it, so does (on occasion) the maligned Mirvish Company.  Canadian Stage used to and will again.]]>
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<category>Toronto, Theatre</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:43:23 PST</pubDate>
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<title>megan</title>
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It's a bit scary when something that feels like such an institution is struggling.  I'm very curious to see what will come out of this, and I think you're exactly right when you say that a city bail out is not the answer.  It's the whole bandaid theory...

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<link>http://www.blogto.com/theatre/2008/02/trouble_for_canstage_trouble_for_toronto/#c262365</link>
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<category>Toronto, Theatre</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:05:30 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Jerrold</title>
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Re: your point about the tourism lull:

2007 was reported to be a record year for tourism in Toronto (based on hotel occupancy data) - Globe and Mail, Feb2008.]]>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:27:14 PST</pubDate>
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