THEATRE NEWS:
Passe Muraille takes theatre to the streets

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency
31 JAN 2012

TORONTO - While “found art” is a concept that has long been popular amongst certain arbiters of taste and style, Toronto is about to get a taste of found theatre too, it seems, in a new season announced by Theatre Passe Muraille’s artistic director Andy McKim.

McKim’s Beyond the Walls season launches in mid-September with a community street festival, to be held at the corner of Ryerson and Wolseley — and as it moves through a series of works for stage, radio and the Internet, it will continue to be informed by its community.

Among McKim’s plans are works, some of them of an interactive nature, that will examine the world of Toronto taxis, life on the 501 streetcar, and life on Queen St. West itself, among a host of other topics. In addition, TPM will focus on honing new work and in taking that work to the city at large, employing guerilla theatre artists to stage works around town.

For further information, visit passemuraille.on.ca.