by ted witzel + Erum Khan + Susanna Fournier
on July 22nd, 2024
in Uncategorized
a ‘real talk’ confessional compiled from assorted conversations between Buddies Curatorial Team (ted witzel + Erum Khan)creatively composed by Susanna Fournier *** I often feel embarrassed at the theatre. [The worst feeling in a theatre is being embarrassed for the work]. …
by ted witzel + Erum Khan + Susanna Fournier
on July 15th, 2024
in Uncategorized
a conversation between Artistic Director, ted witzel and Artistic Associate, Erum Khan. Creatively arranged + edited by Susanna Fournier.
by ted witzel + Erum Khan + Susanna Fournier
on June 5th, 2024
in Uncategorized
A conversation exploring Buddies’ new values betweenArtistic Director, ted witzel and Artistic Associate, Erum Khan. Creatively composed + edited by Susanna Fournier. IT’S BEEN A MINUTE SINCE BUDDIES REVISED ITS VALUES. WE ACTUALLY DON’T KNOW HOW LONG, BUT WE KNOW …
by ted witzel & Erum Khan
on May 29th, 2024
in Uncategorized
Maybe all you need to hear from the leaders at Buddies is this: FREE PALESTINE. If that’s all you need or have the capacity to read, that’s cool. If you want to read a longer piece from us that contextualizes …
by Jaime Lujan
on March 18th, 2024
in Uncategorized, WHITE MUSCLE DADDY
“I’m sick and I’m in love.”“You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.”“That’s right. That’s the first time you’ve been right. I confuse the two and I don’t care.” — Magnolia (1999) My walks home from WHITE MUSCLE …
by We Quit Theatre
on January 3rd, 2024
in We Quit Theatre Anthology
Content warnings: suicide, ableism & MAiD The first time Dasha and I worked together, for reasons I can’t or don’t care to remember, I was suicidal. Walking through downtown to my office job I would squint up at the roofs …
by Peter Hinton-Davis
on December 22nd, 2023
in Uncategorized
What is your history with Buddies? How did it feel to be back? Buddies goes back as far as I remember working in Toronto—from early days of seeing shows like Pasolini/Pelosi and The Dressing Gown by Sky Gilbert, and being …
by Micha Edwards
on September 14th, 2023
in speaking of sneaking
November 2012 sitting in the sterile immigration processing center, I had to make the biggest choice of my life thus far. Do I stay? Or do I go back? Two (2) weeks earlier I was sharing with my friend that …
by James Knott
on May 19th, 2023
in Queer Pride 2023
I recently had a conversation about revisiting past work — how, contrary to a common practice in the pantheon of performance art, I don’t shy from performing work over and over; sometimes with lengthy gaps in between, and others with …
by madonnanera
on April 4th, 2023
in Body So Fluorescent
We both had the great privilege of attending the same Catholic high school in Vaughan, ON. More specifically- a Catholic ARTS high school. (For some reason it feels like there is an oxymoron in those words strung together—catholic-arts-school?) Of course, …