Buddies Announces
Programming
for its 2010/11 Subscription Season
BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE ANNOUNCES PROGRAMMING
FOR ITS 2010 - 2011 SEASON
Canada's Home for Queer Culture
Artistic Director Brendan Healy
For Immediate Release: May 13, 2010.
It is with great excitement that Buddies in Bad Times Theatre announces
its 2010- 2011 Season.
New Artistic Director Brendan Healy says: "When I accepted the position of Artistic Director, I was aware of the company's important legacy and its need for renewal. As a queer artist, I identify with dissenters and mavericks. I have always considered myself an outsider, which affords me a perspective that is apart from mainstream ideals of beauty, art and love. I rebel against moral and cultural clichés around consumer-driven lifestyles, sexuality and identity politics. My vision for a queer theatre is one that embraces this outsider status in order to challenge established notions of morality, human relations, history and politics. In this age of cultural homogenization when difference is erased and divergence is feared, the queer point of view is more necessary than ever. This, my first official season, represents a bold reassertion of Buddies' relevance as an artistic and political force in our city."
Buddies' proudly continues its commitment to new play development, gender parity and diversity with five works written by women, two by First Nations artists, five world premieres of original Canadian works, and the return of our ever-popular annual Rhubarb Festival with a new Festival Director, Laura Nanni.
Next season, Buddies will also extend its reach nationally with two of the company's most successful recent productions embarking on cross-country tours. Both Agokwe and The Silicone Diaries will return to Buddies as they begin to travel the country with stops in Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.
And last, but not least, Buddies will open its doors to an international perspective with the English-Canadian premiere of a major queer work from abroad. Sarah Kane's brilliant and controversial play Blasted will finally get a professional Canadian production, outside of Québec.
The 2010-11 Season engages with the broader world. It fearlessly tackles experiences of citizenship, racialization, religiosity, marginalization and social repression. It is a season that encompasses the full complexities of contemporary existence with quintessentially queer humour, intelligence and ferocity.
Come join Buddies in the theatrical expression and celebration of its uniquely queer point of view.
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BUDDIES’ 10/11 SEASON PASS
Support Buddies proud theatrical tradition by ordering your very own Season Pass. As always, we offer Pass holders reserved seating, 100% flexibility and a truly unique array of shows to choose from.
THE OPTIONS
4 Night Pass — * $85
8 Night Pass — * $120
Under 30
4 Night Pass — * $65
8 Night Pass — * $95
* Please note these prices are subject to HST
THE SHOW OPTIONS
Your Buddies' Season Pass lets you choose 4 or 8 admissions to any of the following mainstage shows:
- Blasted
- The Silicone Diaries
- The Bird
- Rhubarb
- Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
- SPIN
- Agokwe
- The Situationists
- tightrope
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at 416-975-8555.
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