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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Roberto Zucco marks a new era in Buddies’ history of queer theatre
Intermission Magazine: Toronto theatre can be a bit risk-averse.
Artistic directors, constrained by limited funding, program obvious crowd-pleasers over boundary-pushing experiments. Playwrights, afraid to ruffle feathers, create spaces that validate the public’s existing beliefs, rather than raucous experiences designed to provoke. Audiences, faced with shrinking free time, opt for known commodities over innovative, but potentially disappointing, duds. And, as any magazine freelancer will tell you, theatre section editors tend to prioritize artists who readers already know over unfamiliar faces.
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