What is it? It’s a non-profit Canadian theater dedicated to promoting Canadian Queer culture through the performing arts. This theater with its long past and wide support from like-mindedbackers is able to guide and promote many forms of artistic expression from its yearly main stage program, residency programs, and youth initiatives. This years presentations have included:
2013 Saw These Performances:
Obaaberima by Tawiah M’carthy
Imprisoned in Canada for committing a violent crime, a young man from Ghana tells his cellmates a story on the eve of his release. Although there is great risk in sharing his tale, he must tell it to be truly free. Through storytelling, dance, and live music, Obaaberima chronicles a young African-Canadian’s journey across continents, genders, races, and sexualities
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer
For two weeks, over 100 local and international artists transform Buddies in Bad Times Theatre into a hotbed of creativity and experimentation, sharing new ideas in contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, and music with adventure-loving audiences.
Daniel MacIvor’s new play at Buddies in Bad Times, Arigato, Tokyo, is about a confident middle-aged Canadian writer who goes to Japan only to be thrown for a loop.
Veteran actors Edward Roy and Gavin Crawford play a pair of spinster sisters who, through a series of touching and comedic disasters, are forced to deal with the question: how does one age gracefully?
Of a Monstrous Child: a gaga musical
A Gaga Musical, produced by his Ecce Homo Theatre and premiering at Buddies in Bad Times, isn’t a musical so much as an ambitious theatrical essay, stuffed with references to pop, queer, and avant-garde icons.
