www.thestar.com: The King Black Box Theatre is easy to miss.
There isn’t a marquee outside the Parkdale venue, let alone a proper sign. You enter through a storefront door then climb three narrow flights of stairs. The theatre at the top is an unassuming space, with a stage in the front and roughly 40 mismatched chairs in the back, all packed into the third floor of a King Street shophouse, above a dentist clinic and a Popeyes.
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Girls Unwanted seems like an exploration into the urban reality while being located in an epicenter of class divide and artistic & intellectual risk - one that clearly paid off. Though the article begins with a bold ironic statement, the new play itself isn’t subtle - and has clearly made its mark on Toronto on behalf of the King Black Box Theatre Company. I’ve noticed a trend in a lot of ‘smaller’ new plays, one that I’m sure is new only to me: centered around an introspective character exploration in a very dark situation or world. The article makes a grim notice of the closing of most safe injection sites across Ontario, something the play acts as a warning against. In that way, it discusses systemic injustices over time toward the individuals at the intersection of marginalized groups. I really like the idea behind this play, and wonder how each character would play on each other to grow in this ‘halfway house’.
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