There is quite a lot I should blog about as it has been on my mind for some time, but I am running late, per usual, and will keep this brief.
I was able to slip in to see John Logan's Red over at the Theatre Centre. I enjoyed this production a lot, though nothing ever quite lives up to the experience of seeing Alfred Molina on Broadway.
Molina even looked a bit more than the real Rothko (above) than this actor, though that doesn't really matter in the end.
At any rate, for 90 minutes you get Rothko opining on art and other artists and how the viewers need to be "compassionate" towards the art they are viewing. I've actually seen this play three times (also in Vancouver), making it one of the most-seen plays I've seen along with Stoppard's Arcadia, Kushner's Angels in America, Rivera's Marisol and of course many Shakespeare plays (including 6 Lear's after a slow start!). I wouldn't quite put it that company, but it is definitely worth seeing, esp. if you love visual art.
There are two shows today and one on Sunday over at the Theatre Centre.
The other play is Truck, which is a one hour play about automated vehicles taking over the trucking industry and putting thousands of blue-collar workers out of work, on top of the general deindustrialization that has so shaken North America. The playwright also sees the same forces impacting creative work, and even copy-writing and legal work, though he doesn't raise it in the play, only in this interview. Unfortunately, the CBC piece gets the closing date wrong and says the show has closed (and even the splash screen at the Factory website says the same!). Nonetheless, there are two more performances of Truck; one tonight and a matinee tomorrow. Tickets here.
I'll just drop in one more thing, as I am really late now. I had vaguely remembered there is a Warhol exhibit opening up somewhere in Yorkville, and I didn't think I had missed it but wasn't sure. It was surprisingly hard to find the right info, but the show opens next weekend at Taglialatella Galleries and will run through April. I expect to get there next Sat., and also to stop in at Galley Gevik, though I think the current exhibit will have closed, which is a bit annoying. Well, I really don't get over to Yorkville that often and probably can't add yet one more cluster of galleries to my crowded calendar.
Edit: While I never made it swimming, I did stop in and saw some new paintings at Thomas Landry in the Distillery. Then I went to Taglialatella in Yorkville. Interestingly, they had all the Warhols installed, so I wandered around for a bit, though I plan on going back next weekend with my wife. Interestingly, Gallery Gevik thinks they will extend for a few more days, so I didn't absolutely need to get over there on Sat. I am sorry that I didn't stay on top of this and see the Henry Wanton Jones exhibit back in Nov. I liked several of the pieces. They were nice enough to give me one of the exhibit catalogs. They had a handful of pieces from that show in the basement, and I was able to look them over. There is a small chance I will pick up a small painting, though I have to admit, I am not sure where I would hang it...
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