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Summerworks 2010

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 Aftershock NNNN (NS)
All Of Him NNN (JK)
Anatomy Of A Broken Love Affair NNN (JB)
Avatar NNN (GS)
Big Face  NNN (NS)
Biographies Of The Dead & Dying NNN (NS)
Bliss  NNN (GS)
Blood Buds
Countries Shaped Like Stars NNN (GS)
Dancing To A White Boy Song
 The Emotionalists  NNNN (JB)
 Even Darkness Is Made Of Light NNNN (GS)
Exit, Pursued By A Bear
 Express Yourself
Faust: Ich Mochte NNN (NS)
Fiasco Playhouse 
Foreign Exchange
 Foster Child Play  NNNN (GS)
Freda And Jem's Best Of The Week
 The Hanging Of Francoise Laurent NNNN (JK)
 Hannah's Turn
 The Haunted Hillbilly  NNNN (JK)
A Heartbreaking Walk Of Staggering Genius NNN (JB)
 Hero & Leander
Homegrown  NNN (JK)
I Was Barbie  NNN (JK)
The Innocents  NNN (GS)
Invisible Toronto NNN (JK)
 Iphigenia At Aulis  NNNN (GS)
It's Time To Talk About Our Future Together NNN (JB)
IXOK' NNN (JK)
Kaspar And The Sea Of Houses
 Kayak NNNN (JK)
 The Kreutzer Sonata NNNN (JK)
Little Crickets
Lizardboy – A One Man Show
Long Dark Night
Loving The Stranger Or How To Recognize An Invert NNN (JB)
 Malaria Lullabye
 Me Happy NNNN (NS)
 Miss Caledonia NNNN (NS)
A Modicum Of Freedom NN (NS)
Molotov Circus NNN (GS)
Morning Glory
 Mr. Marmalade
Music Series 
No Such Thing
Or  NNN (NS)
Origami Airplane
 The Particulars And In General
Perhaps In A Hundred Years
 The Physical Ramifications Of Attempted Global Domination
 Post Eden  NNNN (JK)
Pretty Little Instincts
 Redheaded Stepchild NNNNN (GS)
The Return Of Corporal Mazenet NNN (JK)
 Ride The Cyclone  NNNN (JK)
The Sad And Cautionary Tale Of Smackheaded Peter  NNN (JK)
The Saddest Girl In The World  NN (JK)
The Safe Word
Say Ginger Ale NN (NS)
 Shed  NNNN (JB)
The Small Ones NN (JB)
Souvenirs Of Home NN (JB)
Step Right Up  NNN (JK)
 Strange Mary Strange
SummerWalks
Theory  NN (JB)
 The Trolley Car
Uncle Lindy's Quit Yer Snivelin' Tour Of Life NNN (NS)
Warning: Txtual Content ;) N (JB)
Waterfront/The Blessing
 White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
The WITCH Of Edmonton  NNN (JB)
Wonderland NNN (JB)
 word! sound! powah! NNNN (JK)
You Should Have Stayed Home

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NNNN Sustained applause
NNN Recommended, memorable scenes
NN Seriously flawed
N Get out the hook
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SummerWorks

In Franco-Ontarian playwright Olivier Choinière’s Bliss, translated by Caryl Churchill, four Walmart workers skim a celebrity magazine and become fixated on the efforts of a wildly successful pop singer named Celine and her agent/husband to have a baby.

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In the bright kitchen of a house in Little Italy, a blender full of frappuccinos explodes all over Naomi Snieckus’s summer dress and onto the floor. A few minutes later, Rufus the dog ambles into the room with the cone of shame on his head.

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SummerWorks

Looking for a fun first date in the Queen/Bathurst neighbourhood? Try the sex shop Missbehavin’. Considering telling your partner you’d like to make your relationship an open one? Avoid Czehoski.

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SummerWorks

Back in high school, Tracy Michailidis quit her arts program to become school president. Why? She wanted to integrate arts into the general curriculum.

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SummerWorks

Being an immigrant in a strange land is hard enough, but the isolation increases for those living in a small community vastly different from their own.

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SummerWorks

In last year’s The Silicone Diaries, Nina Arsenault relived and reflected on her transformation from male to female. Addicted to plastic surgery, Arsenault endured over 60 operations – many performed under horrifically sketchy circumstances – to become the woman she is today.

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SummerWorks

In a juried festival like SummerWorks, it’s always hard to choose which artists to highlight. We whittled a list of several dozen down to these writers, actors and directors who’ve previously impressed us.

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SummerWorks

Today’s one of those important birthdays with a zero at its end.

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NOW Tube

The Hidden Cameras play SummerWorks, and it's appropriately theatric. Take a look.

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SummerWorks

A slip is usually something to avoid.

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