Mar 14, 2012 – 11:37 AM
There’s a fence up in Burlington. On one side are the artists, the environmentalists and the social activists who favour spending money on things that build a community with vitality. I believe in them. On the other side are the fiscal conservatives, the prudent, the wary who favour spending on roads, hospitals and essential services. I believe in them, too. What I don’t believe in is the fence.
Tim Kelly, Burlington Post Mar 02, 2012 – 1:13 PM
It was music to the ears of John Taylor, vice-chair of the Budget and Corporate Services Committee, that the Burlington Performing Arts Centre, or BPAC as its known, was able to balance its $1.65 million budget in 2011.
But the long-time councillor told Brenda Heatherington, BPAC’s executive director at Tuesday’s committee meeting, “If you do that this year, you will have exceeded my expectations.”
Trevor Copp, Guest Columnist
Mar 01, 2012 – 12:59 PM
Councillor John Taylor’s statement last week, “Don’t anyone say that I’m opposed to public art” (the Post, Feb. 23) left me dizzied by its paradox and daunted by its audacity.
It followed his and Councillor Jack Dennison’s decision to vote down Burlington’s best shot at a significant international-class public art purchase in a decade, despite extensive research by the community service committee team that proposed it.
It’s a statement that belongs to a mysterious split-personality politics, an invincible breed of nonsense, like eating in the name of starvation.
Congratulations to Artistic Director, Trevor Copp who is heading to Bogota, Colombia to deliver a theatre workshop and attend the Ibero-American Theater Festival!
Dennis Smith, SPECIAL TO BURLINGTON POST Jan 27, 2012 – 4:32 PM
Trevor Copp is no stranger to provocative theatre — previous play topics included two men ballroom dancing and a relationship involving a minor.
He’ll play a suicide bomber in The Last 15 Seconds, which opens on Friday, Feb. 3 at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre.
“It’s fascinating to probe what makes any human do that,” said Copp. “Expressing it as a Burlington resident was very intimidating for me.”
EDMONTON – If The Iron Lady is getting flack for making a brutal, culturally blind politician more “human” — mainly by having a great actor flesh out Thatcher’s third dimension, as great actors are wont to do — The Last 15 Seconds takes an even bigger risk…
Waterloo resident gives MT Space theatre a national profile with must-see play
Waterloo may be famous for its digital brainpower, but Majdi Bou-Matar is putting his adopted hometown on the map for something else — acclaimed contemporary theatre….
By John Coulbourn ,QMI Agency
First posted:
“1. The Last 15 Seconds: Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space’s compelling piece of movement theatre, about a suicide bomber and the man he killed, exploded on the Theatre Passe Muraille stage and was gone before most people realized it was there. Pity, both for a hugely talented company and for those who missed them.”
by Lynn on December 30, 2011
in The Passionate Playgoer
“THE LAST 15 SECONDS by MT Space from Kitchener and presented by Theatre Passe Muraille. My jaw dropped when I saw this. About a man who died in a suicide bombing whose spirit confronts the bomber. The imagination involved in this work was astonishing. So good was it that I will seek out MT Space whenever and wherever I can possibly find them.”
