PuSh Blog

Dickie Beau: Unplugged

November 21, 2017

Dickie Beau Unplugged

Versatile, vivacious and flamboyant, Dickie Beau is a drag artist extraordinaire, whose lip-synch playback performances have helped update the drag show tradition. A true innovator, he employs miming techniques and uses found sound to create […]

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Some Hope for the Bastards

November 21, 2017

For the musically adventurous and visually attuned, Frédérick Gravel offers a music-dance spectacle to savour—an unholy hybrid of the highbrow and the high-octane. Onstage, nine dancers move in time to a head-nodding live music mix, […]

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King Arthur’s Night

November 21, 2017

King Arthur's Night

Neworld Theatre brings us theatre at its most transformative. This production is a work of radical upheaval, in which the King Arthur legend is made fresh for our eyes. Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere—they’re all present in […]

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Lido Pimienta

September 29, 2016

Lido Pimienta, 2017 PuSh Festival

This is a night of music for the revolution: a tribute to nature and the de-colonized spirit, at the intersection of ethnicity, gender and nationality. Lido Pimienta is a Colombian-born and Toronto-based musician. She sings […]

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Visitors From Far Away to the State Machine

September 29, 2016

Visitors From Far Awary to the State Machine, Hong Kong Exile, 2017 PuSh Festival

This profane space oddity, from Hong Kong Exile, features two aliens on a journey to Earth… for their honeymoon. It’s a long trip—many light years, in fact—which gives our lovers plenty of time to swap […]

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Revenge of the Popinjay

September 29, 2016

Revenge of the Popinjay, AnimalParts, 2017 PuSh Festival

In this experimental rap-horror show, Anthony struggles to cope with the loss of his sister while uncovering a frightening link between himself, his boyfriend and an elusive gay rap star/serial killer targeting heterosexuals. AnimalParts brings […]

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Dynasty Handbag

September 29, 2016

Dynasty Handbag, Jibz Cameron, 2017 PuSh Festival

Rowdy, raunchy and queer as folk, Dynasty Handbag is a blazing stage presence. Here she presents a batch of “golden oldies”—a veritable mixtape of songs from a roster of wholly invented artists. From country ballads […]

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dirtsong

September 29, 2016

dirtsong, Black Arm Band, 2017 PuSh Festival

“Those who lose dreaming are lost.” That’s an Aboriginal proverb that serves as a motto for Black Arm Band, Australia’s spectacular performance company. Specializing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and languages, they are […]

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