The show is a comic look at the quest for romance by Leila, dubbed a “Persian Judy Garland” by one critic.
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Love with Leila is created and performed by Toronto’s Izad Etemadi, a former student at Victoria’s Canadian College of Performing Arts. Country Song is by playwright-performer Lee-Anne Poole, who learned to play the guitar especially for this tribute to her father. Tomboy Survival Guide, which played OUTstages last year, is a collection of tomboy tales delivered by transgender performer/ writer Ivan Coyote.
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The five-day OUTstages festival also includes Tomboy Survival Guide, Country Song, Love with Leila, Diva Cab, a series of free lobby talks and an evening of play-reading featuring emerging playwrights. It was nominated for six Broadway World Toronto Awards. MSM (men seeking men) was first performed at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2013 and at Worldpride Toronto in 2014. Realizing they might make a good theatre piece, he put them aside. I was a 16-year-old who wasn’t quite aware of who I was, sexually speaking,” he said.Ī decade later, as an adult, Kasapi stumbled across the half-forgotten transcripts of these conversations, still on his computer. He started participating in gay chat rooms a year later. Kasapi moved to Canada with his family from his native Albania when he was 15. Sometimes it can get really sexual,” he said. “There are dancers who are touching each other, moving with each other. One critic described MSM (men seeking men) as being “not for the timid.” Kasapi says that’s likely a reference to the dancing, which is sometimes on the suggestive side. As well as Kasapi’s own transcripts, the text features excerpts of other men’s online chats. The 60-minute work for five performers is part of Intrepid Theatre’s third annual OUTstages queer performance festival, running June 20 to 24.įeaturing an all-queer cast (including Kasapi as a DJ), the show examines gay hook-up culture, racism, homophobia and fetishism. Staged by Kasapi’s Toronto based Lemontree Creations, MSM (men seeking men) will be performed at the Metro Studio next week.
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But I didn’t feel they were dangerous at the time,” said Kasapi, now 32. “It did shock me how dangerous those situations could have been. In his dance-theatre piece MSM (men seeking men), the Toronto actor/playwright uses verbatim transcripts of online conversations he had with gay men as a 16-year-old. Tickets: $20, $25 (three-show passes $50) via or 101-804 Broughton St.ĭelving into the world of gay chat rooms as a teen probably wasn’t a good idea, Indrit Kasapi admits. Where: Metro Studio, Intrepid Theatre Club