WalkLeft, the Podcast

Distinguished Guests & Marty Chodorek
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A Toronto-focussed performing arts program previewing projects & productions.

  1. 2015-02-27

    Brain Food

    Port Moresby Productions is presenting two new short plays at the Red Sandcastle Theatre this March. Michael Stittle – playwright and director of Fail Safe – and Bil Antoniou – who wrote, directed, and is acting in We Say Such Terrible Things – invite you to an evening of entertainment including a dystopian dream and biting banter. More information about the presentation is available on Facebook.

    20 min

  2. 2014-07-03

    2014 Fringe Festival Digest

    The 2014 Toronto Fringe Festival is under way! Here’s a complete list of this year’s Fringe previews to help you plan your patronage. Thanks to all of the theatre creators who sat down for a chat! An Evening in July Licking Knives Julius Caesar Project Memento Mori Tarrare: A Story of Hunger Valkyrie GUNSHOT Fantastic Extravagance The festival also features creations by past guests of WalkLeft, the Podcast. Those shows include: Ask Lovecraft – Monkeyman Productions‘ own Leeman Kessler visited to promote a reading of Loring Mandel’s Conspiracy. He’s also internationally known for giving advice as the celebrated and reanimated 20th century horror author. Look for him in the Fringe AlleyPlays tent and on YouTube and Tumblr. Cirqular – a new puppetry piece by Artichoke Heart Collective, whose Co-Artistic Director Michelle Urbano was last heard inviting all to We Walk Among You before it was named one of the Top Ten shows in last year’s Montréal Fringe. Punch Up – the newest play from Theatre Brouhaha‘s incomparable Kat Sandler, who was one of the podcast’s first guests when her play Delicacy debuted. She’s even on the cover of NOW Magazine this year. Congrats Kat! And last, but certainly not least: Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl – I had the pleasure of speaking with Rebecca Perry about her show last year before she took it to other Canadian Fringe Festivals and, though some of the details have changed and the play has been futher developed, here’s an encore presentation of that episode which will shed some light on its origins: Have a great Fringe! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

    21 min

  3. 2014-07-02

    Fantastic Extravagance

    The Steady State Theatre Project provides programming for plays at all stages of development. This year, as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, the company presents a play it has been developing over the last two years. Playwright Lara Stokes recounts her script’s history and shares her thoughts on the creative process and the relationship between arts creators and arts consumers. More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    22 min

  4. 2014-07-01

    GUNSHOT

    There’s a lot of scripted theatre in this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival, but it’s also the perfect time of year to see dance performances. And ReActive Dance Theatre is locked and loaded. The company’s co-founders, choreographers Amanda Pye and Rhanda Jones, aim to provoke audiences with their work and to present something refreshingly different for Fringe-goers. More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    14 min

  5. 2014-06-30

    Valkyrie

    Previews for this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival continue, with Rarely Pure Theatre‘s production of a new play by Thomas McKechnie. Christina Bryson(the company’s general manager and stage manager for this production) and returning guests Spencer Robson and Monique Renaud(both of whom act in this show) were careful not to reveal too much about their gritty story of betrayal, sex, power, and revenge, but they do share enough to pique curiosity with their observations on the creation process. More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    20 min

  6. 2014-06-29

    Tarrare: A Story of Hunger

    Suspicious Moustache Theatre Company‘s contribution to this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival presents a man defined by his monstrous appetite. Liam Volke and Darcy Stoop, the playwright and director, respectively, chat about their penchant for the dark and whimsical as well as their approach to filling in the gaps of an enigmatic life lived against the backdrop of the French Revolution. More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    26 min

  7. 2014-06-28

    Memento Mori

    This year’s Toronto Fringe Festival features a new one-woman show from SOULO Theatre’s effusive founder, Tracey Erin Smith. If you haven’t yet heard about Tracey’s work with SOULO Theatre, her recent debut as a guest of WalkLeft is worth a listen. This time, she’s wearing her creator and performer hats and invites you to see how she applies her methods to her own work. And what’s not to like about the prospect of meditating upon mortality and death – through the lens of living for a year like it’s your last – set to a soundtrack of tango? More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    20 min

  8. 2014-06-27

    Julius Caesar Project

    The Spur of the Moment Shakespeare Collective returns to the Toronto Fringe Festival(and to the podcast) with an all-female production of one of the Bard’s classic tragedies, set in a women’s prison. Director Taryn Jorgenson and producer/actor Victoria Urquhart discuss the process of modernizing and modifying the classic, which will be presented at women’s shelters following the festival. More information about performances is available on Facebook and the Toronto Fringe website.

    20 min
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A Toronto-focussed performing arts program previewing projects & productions.

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  • Creator
    Distinguished Guests & Marty Chodorek
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2015
  • Episodes
    50
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    WalkLeft, the Podcast