OTL Blog

In an attempt to diversify its media holdings and reach a new, more socially aware public, CanWest Global Communications Corporation has purchased several internet sites, blogs and forums deemed until recently to be too small-scale for a large media corporation to even be interested in.  This online publication, the OTL Blog, is one of them. […]

March 15th marked the 13th International Day Against Police Brutality, and in Montreal the mood was tense after an unusually brutal year whereby police officers killed a young man after they found him playing dice with his friends. Early in the evening on August 9th, 2008, 18 year old Fredy Villanueva was shot dead at […]

From the OTL archive, this article was written in 2003 by Donovan King about a workshop given by Augusto Boal, founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, that he took part in: Apparently Billboard Trucks, giant commercial television screens on buildings, and advertising panels in public washrooms are not enough to satisfy corporate desires to capture […]

A towering billboard has finally been removed from The Main historic site, causing a collective sigh of relief from local residents who had been subjected to its gigantic advertisements since March, 2008. The 2-storey-high billboard was wrapped around a building on the South-East corner of St. Laurent and Sherbrooke, and for seven months citizens have […]

We’ve been getting quite a bit of it on this trip, both local (Halifax Herald, Daily News) and national (CBC, Globe and Mail). Most of it is already online here: www.optative.net/neptune/media.html

After a long drive and a day of flyering, talking to the media and in general having a good time in Halifax, we headed to Annapolis Royal for our first Nova Scotia show, yesterday, November 14th, the 400th anniversary of Lescarbot’s play. Of course, we had to pay a visit to the “birthplace of drama” […]

The Montreal cast and crew of Sinking Neptune is leaving for Nova Scotia tomorrow morning. We will be playing a show in Anapolis Royal at King’s Theatre on Tuesday, November 14th and two shows in Halifax at The Bus Stop on November 15th and 16th. We’re going to help start the next 400 years of […]