Stage actress Alexis Gordon will join a panel discussing “Black Excellence in the Performing Arts,” on Thursday, Sept. 29.
O brave new world / That has such people in’t! From left: Stephen Ouimette as Trinculo, Tom McCamus as Stephano and Michael Blake as Caliban in the Stratford Festival production of “The Tempest.”
Alumni and friends will travel to the Stratford Festival for its production of The Tempest on Wednesday, October 17.
Theatre should be a vehicle for education, say two drama students who will premiere their original work, For Those Who Stand Upon Our Shoulders, this weekend.
Fourth-year acting majors Aisha Bentham and Alexis Gordon drew upon their own experiences as the only two black women in their program to craft what they hope will be a jumping-off point for thought and discussion on the subject of race in Canadian theatre.
“We don’t have all the answers,” says Bentham. “We just want to raise some questions.”
