> TOP TICKETS: THREE SHOWS TO WATCH THIS WEEK
Eunoia
Watch this if: You’ve always wanted to watch experimental poetry.
Raise your hand if you’ve heard of this one before — a “Toronto dance legend” (according to one critic) choreographs her new project using a Canadian award-winning poetry book that uses only one vowel per chapter as the score.
No? Nothing? Well, that’s exactly what Denise Fujiwara has created with Eunoia, based on Christian Bok’s book of the same name, which blew audiences away when it premiered in 2014.
Now it’s back in Toronto after a national tour through the East Coast, Alberta and the Yukon and shouldn’t be missed by any fan of dance or poetry or both.
Wednesday to Nov. 8, Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231Queens Quay W.
The River
Watch this if: You love indie theatre and don’t mind some seafood.
Last year, the basement of a pizza restaurant on the Danforth became a welcome new hot spot for indie theatre as the Coal Mine, founded by actress and producer Diana Bentley and Soulpepper Theatre founding artist Ted Dykstra.
But the positive response to their inaugural season hasn’t taken away the indie spirit; their second season is officially opening in a temporary location while the original is under construction.
Nevertheless, the Coal Mine is likely to get headlines again with The
River by buzzworthy U.K. playwright Jez Butterworth, which requires Man (David Ferry) to gut, cook and prepare a fish on stage as two women flit in and out of his memory.
Sunday to Nov. 22, the Coal Mine’s temporary location, 982 Danforth Ave.
Caminos
Watch this if: The Pan Am Games wetted your appetite for Pan American culture.
Panamania was on the top of everyone’s cultural calendar this summer, and Toronto’s Aluna Theatre is here to make sure that doesn’t change now that the games (and their associated funding) are over.
In partnership with Native Earth Performing Arts, they’re presenting the 2015 Caminos festival, bringing together new works-in-development, cabarets and talks from artists across the Americas. We’re especially excited for Broken
Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre (Canada Reads 2012 winner), local playwright Rosa Labordé’s Marine Life, Gilda Monreal’s Ayelen (seen at this summer’s SummerWorks Festival), and Lilia Leon’s Perdida.
Tuesday to Nov. 8, Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas St. E.