Buddies in Bad Times
Theater Company
Nathalie Claude, the human star of a three-robot showQuebecois performance artist Nathalie Claude does not fear a robot apocalypse. In her show The Salon Automaton, which opens at Buddies in Bad Times on Dec.1, Claude shares the stage with three robots inspired by 19th-century... In this article: Buddies in Bad Times, Europe, Stage fright, and Champagne |
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thestar.com | November 19, 2009
What's On: Night & Day Weekend
...Hutcheson, David Bateman, the Nomemes, Kristen Johnson and more, with host Cole dishing up slices of his life. Fri., doors 10:30 p.m. ($8). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. TAP in features cross-cultural entertainment with...
In this article: Johann Sebastian Bach, Yonge St., R&B, Lutheran, and Platinum
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What's On: Stage
In this article: Yonge St., Tarragon Theatre, William Shakespeare, Rendez-vous, and Robin Hood
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What's On: Stage
...of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential play. Part of Nightwood Theatre's 4x4 Festival, it runs to Nov. 21 (PWYC-$45 at 416-955-0101). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. www.nightwoodtheatre.net The Silicone Diaries, created...
In this article: Yonge St., Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, William Shakespeare, George Elliott Clarke, and Purgatory
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What's On: Coming Soon
...Tenors Christmas concert at Brampton's Rose Theatre, 905-874-2800 December 1 The Salon Automaton from Nathalie Claude begins at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 416-975-8555 December 2-5 To Be Straight With You from England's DV8...
In this article: Massey Hall, Air Canada Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Glenn Gould Studio, Roy Thomson Hall, The Nutcracker, New Year's Eve, St. Patrick's Church, and DV8 Physical Theatre
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The Silicone Diaries: The performer as work of art
...how truly special it is. That, to my mind, is the only possible response to The Silicone Diaries, which opened Tuesday night at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. There have been many, many performers before now who have gone on to...
In this article: Nina Arsenault, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Reader's Digest, Plastic surgery, Mother Theresa, Don Quixote, Tommy Lee, and Ontario
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No Exit: Collier gives heavenly direction in Sartre's hell
...to the Star Andy Thompson plays Cradeau and Jonathon Young the bellhop in 'No Exit.' By John-Paul Sartre. Directed by Kim Collier. At Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St., until Nov. 21. 416-955-0101 At first you wonder if...
In this article: No Exit, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
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Nina Arsenault's stripped-down Silicone Diaries
...to turn from an unmemorable man to an unforgettable woman. That's the story she's telling in The Silicone Diaries, which opens at Buddies in Bad Times on Saturday. Arsenault's story has been front and centre for several years now in...
In this article: Nina Arsenault, Pamela Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Tommy Lee, and Toronto
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What's On: Weekday Planner
...Allison Cummings. Not based on African movement, the piece is based on Cummings' experiences in Ghana, West Africa. Performances run Thurs. -Sat. 8 p.m., Sun. 2 p.m. ($22/$18 at 416-975-8555). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.
In this article: Dance Theatre, Clara Schumann, World War I, Theatre Passe Muraille, Bad Dog Theatre, and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
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What's On: Galleries
..."Text-Based" with work from Steven Brown, Lynn Campbell, Svava Juliusson, James Koester, John Will & ArtEXCHANGE runs to Nov. 1. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander St.): Karina Bergman's "Organisms and Orifices" exhibit, part of the...
In this article: York University, Art Gallery, Yonge St., and Toronto
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Neon Nightz: Burlesque storytelling laid bare
Created and performed by Sasha Von Bon Bon and Kitty Neptune. Until Oct. 10 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St. 416-975-8555 The stage, fringed with lights, is dominated by two five-metre stripper poles. Smoke drifts in and...
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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a Canadian professional theatre company.
Based in Toronto, Ontario and founded in 1978 by Matt Walsh, Jerry Ciccoritti, and Sky Gilbert, Buddies in Bad Times is dedicated to "the promotion of queer theatrical expression".
Buddies' inaugural production was a Gilbert written play, Angels in Underwear. An anthology of Beat poetry, Angels starred Walsh as Jack Kerouac and Ciccoritti as Allen Ginsberg, and was performed at The Dream Factory on Queen Street in Toronto in September 1978.
Gilbert was the company's first artistic director.
Gilbert, Walsh and Ciccoritti also subsequently founded the Rhubarb Festival of Canadian Plays, first produced by the theatre company at The Dream Factory in January 1979 and featuring short plays written by local, unknown playwrights directed by all three of Rhubarb's founders.
The name Buddies in Bad Times was taken from the poem of the same title by the French poet Jacques Prévert. It was originally the expression of the close friendship that prevailed between Walsh and Gilbert during their years at York University and The Three Schools of Art.
Although the company, under Gilbert's leadership, eventually achieved notoriety and success in the 1980s as a so-called "gay" theatre company, it was not founded with that intent. Instead Buddies was among a number of alternative companies founded by a new generation of mid-1970s theatre school graduates (many out of York University) shut out of the "professional" theatre scene due to their youth. Other companies founded at this time in Toronto included Nightwood Theatre and Necessary Angel.
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