Thoughts on Plays

Ideas about process, and thoughts of others about my work. 

Manifesto for Theatre Education and Climate Crisis Volume

Manifesto for Theatre Education and Climate Crisis Volume

Posted Aug 19th, 2020

I wrote this concussing manifesto for a book I'm doing with some colleagues with Routledge on 'Theatre Education and the Climate Crisis'

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Draft Introduction to volume of North American Plays

Draft Introduction to volume of North American Plays

Posted Feb 26th, 2020

Ediciones SinParedes (Mexico City) is publishing a translation of Our Lady of Delicias in Spanish, done by Maria Constanza Guzman (York U). Here's a draft I've written the introduction to the volume that I'm co-editing.

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alt.theatre review of Our Lady of Delicias

alt.theatre review of Our Lady of Delicias

Posted Jun 5th, 2019

Check out the alt.theatre review of Our Lady of Delicias here: https://alttheatre.ca/2018/06/09/review-patron-saint...

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Enamorados De La Vida: Discussing ECT's Our Lady of Delicias with Migrant Labour Activist Rangel Ramos by Haley Malouin

Enamorados De La Vida: Discussing ECT's Our Lady of Delicias with Migrant Labour Activist Rangel Ramos by Haley Malouin

Posted Mar 11th, 2019

With its mordant exploration of colonialism – past and present – in Central and South American contexts, unsettling environmental and mythological quandaries, and philosophical examination of movement and migration, David Fancy's Our Lady of Delicias is persistently and profoundly complex.

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Thoughts on CUT by Hayley Malouin

Thoughts on CUT by Hayley Malouin

Posted Mar 9th, 2019 in Playwriting

CUT posits a world in which everyone is broken, and getting ‘fixed’ isn’t as important as coming to terms with one’s brokenness. As a reading, it is magnificently forthcoming, enticingly intelligent, and beautifully unsettling.

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Six Observations about Major Predictions, Barbara by David Fancy

Six Observations about Major Predictions, Barbara by David Fancy

Posted Feb 26th, 2019 in news

A conversation between two different times based around what value do fictional spaces have, be they theatrical fictions, video game fictions

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David Fancy Playwright

Thoughts 

  • "These plays are Dionysian machines that resist simple or reductive interpretations, far from it in fact: they are open-ended monstrosities, terrifying beasts of language..."
    - Francesca Flavia, Pataphysician