Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead) star.
The thriller sees RJ Mitte in the lead role opposite character actor Peter Outerbridge and rising star Ari Millen. “It was an amazing experience working with Cody and the Black Fawn team to tell the unique and surreal story in
The Oak Room,” states Mitte. “From the cast to the crew in Canada, where we filmed this, it was such a great group to work with. I’m so excited for this project to come out!”
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The Oak Room became more and more of a personal project for me after each step of development,” explains Calahan. “My son was born right before we went to camera. And a lot of the stories in the film revolve around the relationships that exist between fathers and sons. At each stage of the process, I found myself reflecting on what the mystery of this story truly meant to me. I’m excited to see how it will connect with different audiences out there and what people will take away from it.”
40 at 40: Michael Healey on his 22-year-old classic
40 at 40: Michael Healey on his 22-year-old classic
In our series revisiting 40 memorable NOW covers from the past 40 years, Michael Healey talks about his low expectations for future classic The Drawer Boy By Glenn Sumi and Jon Kaplan
Feb 22, 2021
Michael Healey posed for his February 1999 cover for The Drawer Boy at Riverdale Farm.
It’s hard to believe now, but playwright and actor Michael Healey didn’t realize The Drawer Boy – his 1999 play about two Ontario farmers in 1972 whose lives are forever changed by a young Toronto actor – was going to be a hit.
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16 December, 2020 The Jebbos, (from left, at back) Asmaa, Amal, Fatima El Hussein (the mother), Abdallah (at front), Allam (the father), Amina (on her fatherâs lap), Anas (at front) and Mohammad, sitting at their home in Winnipeg. (Maan Alhmidi)
When Allam Jebbo and his wife Fatima El Hussein fled Syria for Canada via Lebanon, they had one thing in their minds: moving to a safe place where their children could go to school.
The family was sponsored by the Canadian government after being nominated in 2016 by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lebanon. Since landing as refugees more than three years ago, they have been living with their six children in a three-bedroom townhouse on Rose Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. Now, they call this place home, and they are ready to apply to become Canadian citizens.
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Theatre Passe Muraille presents TPM Book Club. This event will feature Ryan Knighton’s
Cockeyed. Dec 16 at 7:30 pm.
The story of his 15-year descent into blindness while incidentally revealing the world of the sighted in all its phenomenal peculiarity. This book will be discussed alongside the themes in
Speculation from our season.
The Zoom link will open at 6:30 pm for a discussion around the change of title for this edition of TPM Book Club. The discussion for
Cockeyed will resume from 7:30-8:30 pm.
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