The Wrecking Ball

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What

TWB is an attempt to bring the headlines to the theatre. We ask acclaimed Canadian and international playwrights to dramatize the world we find ourselves in today … right here … right now.

Why

There is no question that theatre exists in our news—the performances have all been top rate, but the question is: where is the news in our theatre?

How

Each writer has only a few days to write a short play with overtly political themes – each individual writer can decide what that means to him or her (and given these particular writers, that could mean a lot). The plays are given short rehearsals in advance of staged readings. Add music, a hundred or so people hungry for meaningful theatre and, voila, you have a Wrecking Ball.

When/Where

There’ve been eight Toronto Wrecking Balls cabarets to date, and the October, 2008 edition saw the WB go national – Wrecking Balls were staged semi-simultaneously in 10 cities across the country, in advance of the federal election. An unprecedented mobilization of artists and art lovers.

Who

TWB Toronto is produced by a group of Toronto-based theatre artists:
Nina Lee Aquino, Michael Wheeler, Ravi Jain, Alan Dilworth, Ruth Madoc-Jones, Ross Manson, Weyni Mengesha,Julie Tepperman and Aaron Willis

You can read some early articles about the Ball in the Globe, or here, in the Star. Yet more….

Contact

If you’re looking to get in touch, there’s a contact form you might be interested in.