Nomination Day

So a really huge day for us what with nominations for our 2010-2011 Season. Where to start....ok....first up the newly announced Toronto Theatre Critic's Award that gave a Best Actress Award to Yanna McIntosh for her performance of Mama Nadi in Ruined

Full Listings: Toronto Sun, The Star. The Globe and Mail

Dora Award Nominees:Full List

Some bragging just cause: Yanna McIntosh - Outstanding Performance Nominee, Sterling Jarvis - Outstanding Performance Nominee, Ruined - Outstanding Production Nominee, Philip Akin - Outstanding Direction Nominee (Obsidian Theatre in association with Nightwood Theatre)

And in Edmonton the Sterling Awards: Tamara Marie Kucheran - Outstanding Costume Design - Intimate Apparel (Obsidian Theatre presented by The Citadel Theatre)

A big, big shout out to all the nominees.

Ruined Blog

If you look over at the blogroll you will see a new blog called Ruined. It is a research and information site for the creative team and cast of our production of Ruined. There will be links, pics and embeds etc but mostly it will be a way to package a lot of information about the Congo so that we can have a shared basic understanding of the world we are going to be living in.

If you find anything that you think might be of interest please send it on to me and I will get it up.

So for those of you who like to follow a process all the way through from pictures on line to sitting through the performance, the Ruined Blog will be a place for you to check in on.

World Theatre Day

A particularly stunning message for World Theatre Day by Lynn Nottage. I love where she says "I challenge all of us to sustain the complexity of our world" as this is a re-statement of what was said to her by a Rwandan refugee.

IA Final Set Up + Reviews

The Pre-set look



The Cast, Crew & Artistic Team




Another LX look


Reviews:

The Star: Intimate Apparel: An intimate journey into love's depths
The Globe & Mail: Intimate Apparel is well worth slipping into


Pictures by David Hou

Intimate Apparel Load In Day 2

Intimate Apparel Load In

The Intimate Apparel set being loaded into the Bluma Appel Theatre



But what puzzles me is how a set so big can still look like a model.




Thanks to Chris Carlton for the pics

Nottage Alert

Ah most excellent news as Lynn Nottage wins the Pulitzer Prize for Ruined


I saw this play about 6 weeks ago and man o man it is truly great.