Six years ago this past Monday, 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, who grew up in Olympia, Washington and traveled to the Gaza Strip as a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she defended the home of a Palestinian pharmacist in Rafah. Her memory, though, seems like […]
Tony Nardi is not someone who likes to keep silent. He’s also someone who likes to keep the discussion going and continues to incorporate new voices into the dialogue he started and performs as Two Letters…and counting. Tonight, Sunday and Tuesday, he’ll be reading his letters live again at UQAM and filming what happens. In […]
Harold Pinter, who died this past Christmas Eve at the age of 78, was not only an acclaimed playwright, actor, director and poet, he was an activist who wasn’t afraid to speak his mind. He was also someone who saw how art could be used as a tool for social change and recognized, as an […]
It’s New Year’s Eve, so what better time to look back on the past year and the year ahead. 2008 was a busy one for OTL on several fronts: Sinking Neptune II: We adapted our verbatim theatre critique of Canada’s “first play” Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France and those remounting it, racism against […]
Even though we’re known for guerilla-style culture jams and highly improvised performances like Car Stories, OTL also has also produced a significant amount of text over the years, some of it theoretical material and some of it scripts for theatre. We’ve started collecting some of this in what we’re calling the Optative Library. Just like […]
Last night we played the first of two shows at The Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St. in Halifax. The crowd was lively and we had a very interesting talkback session with questions about the choice of images in our slide projections and what they meant for what we were hoping to accomplish with our […]
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