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Cabin in the Woods. Podcast Episode 3.
Below is the full text for Episode 3 of Fight With a Stick's podcast series, The Refrain Getting in Sync With the World. It can be found...
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Oct 26, 20244 min read


Falling Apart, Falling Together. Podcast Episode 2. Full Transcript.
(You can listen to the podcast at https://www.fightwithastick.ca/podcast or the usual podcast players) We are in danger of breaking apart...
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Sep 22, 202327 min read


Thinking with the Forest. Podcast Episode 1. (Full Transcript).
Fight With a Stick's new podcast series — The Refrain: Getting in Sync with the Word — has just launched. Listen to the full first...
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Jul 23, 202231 min read


Musings: Am I Integrated?
Alex Lazaridis F. I'm the artistic director of the performance company Fight With a Stick. It's a sort of hybrid ...
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Oct 2, 20209 min read


The Democratic Set—Back to Back Theatre (Melbourne, Australia) (PuSh Fest 2020)
Jan 21-23, 35. The Roundhouse. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. (Warning: This is article is part review and part discussion of...
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Mar 26, 202012 min read


A User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling—PME-ART (Canada) (PuSh Fest 2020)
A User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling — PME-ART Feb 5-6. Western Front. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. Authenticity is a...
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Feb 21, 20204 min read


Cutlass Spring — Dana Michel (Montreal) (PuSh 2020 Review)
Photo by Jocelyn Michel
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Feb 17, 20205 min read


Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights — Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Review)
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights — Compagnie Marie Chouinard March 15 and 16, Vancouver Playhouse, Dance House Season By...
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Mar 26, 20195 min read


Fragile Forms — MACHiNENOiSY (Canada) (PuSh 2019 review)
Feb 2-7 Anvil Centre By Mikis Vrettakos The Anvil Center in New Westminster is a building at odds with the older structures on Columbia...
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Mar 3, 20196 min read


salt. — Selina Thompson (UK) (PuSh 2019 review)
January 24-27 The Roundhouse By Alex Lazaridis F. As I enter the Roundhouse theatre, near start time, performer-writer Selina Thompson is...
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Feb 12, 20195 min read


The Black Piece (Dance Review) — WArd/waRD
November 6-8 The Dance Centre By Alex Lazaridis Ferguson A main feature of The Black Piece, by Dutch-Flemish choreographer Ann Van den...
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Nov 26, 20184 min read


12 Minute Madness (theatre review) — Upintheair Theatre
May 23-27 The Cultch By Hailey McCloskey Written and directed by Raina Von Waldenberg, the interaction starts immediately. I walk in...
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Nov 26, 20185 min read


Contes Cruels (dance review) — Les Productions Figlio
May 23-26 Firehall Arts Centre By Hailey McCloskey Serge Bennathan's Contes Cruels opens with a bare stage, exposed, no curtains....
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Oct 29, 20184 min read


Musings — Immersion v. aesthetic distance: the case of WET.
Wet — an immersive play at The Russian Hall Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Immersive theatre — theatre where the audience is right inside the...
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Jun 15, 20185 min read


BETROFFENHEIT (Review) — Kidd Pivot and The Electric Company
March 14-17 Vancouver Playhouse Virtuosity and Absolution in Betroffenheit Alex Lazaridis Ferguson [Note: This review originally appeared...
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Mar 15, 20185 min read


FOXCONN FREQUENCY (NO. 3): FOR THREE VISIBLY CHINESE PERFORMERS – HKX (Vancouver) PuSh 2018 Review
Jan 31-Feb 1 Performance Works Alex Lazaridis Ferguson I’m in a theatre watching a game. What kind of game is it? What kind of theatre...
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Mar 8, 20189 min read


I'M NOT HERE Theatre Club (Ireland) PuSh 2018 review
Jan 24-28 The Cultch Hailey McCloskey I'm Not Here, written, directed and designed by Doireann Coady (Theatreclub, Ireland), is about a...
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Feb 15, 20188 min read


ENDINGS Tamara Saulwick (Australia) Push 2018 review
January 26-28 Roundhouse Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Death is everywhere in Endings. A gradual kind of death, one that allows for reflection....
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Feb 2, 20183 min read


MEETING Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe (Australia) Push 2018 Review
Jan 24-27 Performance Works (Image by Gregory Lorenzutti) Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Are the humans still human? Meeting is a performance...
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Feb 2, 20184 min read
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