Famine, presented by Single Thread Theatre Company, is being staged at NGB Studios, a former factory and produce warehouse, which adds to the effect of the 19th century setting. (Harrison Smith)
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Famine has a taste for the unusual
On the east end of Cataraqui Street, a stone’s throw away from the frosty waters of the Kingston Inner Harbour, sits a run-down factory that, upon first sight, looks frighteningly similar to the imagined locale of childhood nightmares.
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Mixing metaphors, making music
Toronto’s Rock Plaza Central pay more than just lip-service to the idea of creative improvisation in music. Going beyond on-stage songwriting—although they do that, too—everything from the folk-rock band’s membership to its name was made up on the fly.
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Tearing love apart to take a closer look
Love Will Tear Us Apart, the infectious title of Lisa Visser’s new collection of work at the Sleepless Goat, brings with it connotations of Joy Division’s hit single—heartbreak and musings on a bleak life outlook. The dark and obsessive notion of the song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” intrigued Visser, so she created an exhibit to explore the meanings of this phrase and the history of the song using different media including photography, video stills, book-based artworks and textiles.
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Rock and Roll Report Card
This September, the Weakerthans released their fourth studio album, Reunion Tour, to the absolute delight of their followers. Reunion Tour is the first album the Weakerthans have offered up in four years, and it’s everything their fans could have asked for.