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Theatre Rusticle
@theatrerusticle.bsky.social
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award winning physical theatre company in Toronto. making work since 1998. Allyson McMackon artistic director. https://theatrerusticlewordpresscom.wordpress.com
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going back into the studio this week for a little workshopette on a new piece. photo of a director talking with her hands by @mimnagh.bsky.social in 2023 during a workshop for The Tempest #wheelscomingfullcircle #lesson11 #bigsprawlingbrawlingtheatre
black and white photo of a woman's hands describing something. a silver ring on her upper hand. table in the foreground full of stuff
June 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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#theatrethursday puttering with this beast. directing the graduating class at York University in the fall. #idolovenothingintheworldsowellasyou #muchado #theatresky
cover of an Arden edition of Much Ado About Nothing (featuring a window and a view of illustrated trees and sky) with a pencil lying across it.
May 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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a reminder of rehearsal halls. Beck Lloyd (actor) and @allysonrusticles.bsky.social (director) in rehearsal for The Tempest (2024). Photo by @mimnagh.bsky.social #TheatreThursday #TheatreSky #theatrerusticlestempest
photo of an actor sitting on the floor talking to a director sitting in a chair chewing on her finger nails. a rehearsal room. an actor in the background on break.
March 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The Stronger Variations 2014 Photo of Chala Hunter & Andrya Duff by @mimnagh.bsky.social Costumes: Dylan Bobier. Set: Lindsay Anne Black Lighting: @lxq42.bsky.social SM: Sarah O'Brien direction me Supported by Canada Council, OAC & TAC #TheatreThursday
photo of a woman in a dress with a black top and white skirt in the foreground while a woman in the same dress plus a hat us upstage doing a back bend. blue lighting.
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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rehearsal photo from our Midsummer (2020) by @mimnagh.bsky.social of Kwaku Okyere (Oberon) and fairies: Amanda Cordner, Burg Code, Michael Derworiz, Alexa MacDougall, Matthew Rossoff. SM Sarah O'Brien. Direction @allysonrusticles.bsky.social Supported by Canada Council #TheatreSky #TheatreThursday
photo of an actor playing Oberon pulling themselves out of a crowd of fairies. actors wearing rehearsal clothing. expressions and bodies from the fairy world
March 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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photo of Beck Lloyd and Annie Tuma in our Tempest (2024) by @mimnagh.bsky.social
Costumes Brandon Kleiman. Lighting @lxq42.bsky.social Sm Sarah O’Brien Direction @allysonrusticles.bsky.social supported by @ontarioarts.bsky.social and Canada Council #thetempest #TheatreSky #TheatreThursday
Photo is a woman in a cape waking up a woman in an Elizabethan ruff. Blue light. Magic. A spell.
February 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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poor puck. photo of Kwaku Okyere (Oberon) and @beatlerick.bsky.social (Puck) in Midsummer (2020) by @mimnagh.bsky.social Costumes Brandon Kleiman Lighting Design @lxq42.bsky.social SM Sarah O'Brien Direction @allysonrusticles.bsky.social . Supported by Canada Council #MSND #TheatreThursday
photo of a man on the right in the shadows casting a spell on a man standing in green light wearing a short with skeleton ribs on it and cardigan
February 21, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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allyson m and Sarah o'brien directing and SM-ing The Tempest in 2024. photographed by @mimnagh.bsky.social (who sees everything) #directinghard #stagemanaginghard #rusticlestempest #theatrethursday
photo of a woman wearing glasses, gesturing with her hands, directing a play. to her right is another woman wearing glasses following the script and making notes. the room is an acting studio from the 1960's
February 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Shakespeare got that right.....
February 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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#TheatreThursday pre-rusticle Rusticle-ing with Tara Rosling and I. somehow we had use of a movie theatre and someone took photos of some thing we were making. at least 30 years ago... #thebeforebeforetimes #whenwewereyoung
photo of two women. gaze down. both hair pulled back. they're making some dance-theatre. photo of parts of two other women's heads in the foreground.
February 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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"what kind of bird are you"? Peter and the Wolf (2011 Theatre Centre). Photo of Joe Phillips, Artfarm, Viv Moore & Lucy Rupert by Kelly Clipperton. Set/Costumes @linanneblack2.bsky.social Lighting @lxq42.bsky.social Music Pat Caird. SM Sandra Henderson Direction @allysonrusticles.bsky.social
man in rustic shirt is playing a stand-up base while a woman in orange tights, aviator hat and green utility jacket (she's playing a duck) spins another woman in a royal blue flapper dress with yellow leggings (she is playing a bird. a small chamber orchestra (flute, violin etc) is obscured in the background)
January 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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technical rehearsal for Rusticle's Our Town (2017). photo by @mimnagh.bsky.social of Viv Moore, Jenna-Lee Hyde, Francois Macdonald & company. Costumes by Brandon Kleiman. Lighting by @lxq42.bsky.social SM Sarah O'Brien Direction Allyson McMackon supported by: OAC, CC #TheatreThursday #OurTown
January 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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on this day last year, The Tempest opened at Buddies in Bad Times. photo of Brefny Caribou by @mimnagh.bsky.social Hats by @linanneblack.bsky.social with Monica Viani Costumes by Brandon Kleiman Lighting by @lxq42.bsky.social
SM Sarah O'Brien. 🙏 Canada Council & OAC #physicaltheatre #TheTempest
January 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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gradually migrating over. going through the vaults. photo of Lucy Rupert, Patrick Conner and Matthew Romantini in Rusticle's Dora-nominated April 14, 1912 by @linanneblack.bsky.social lighting design: @lxq42.bsky.social set & costumes: @linanneblack.bsky.social #titanic #physicaltheatre
January 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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on this day in 2020. tech rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photos by @mimnagh.bsky.social lighting by @lxq42.bsky.social costumes Brandon Kleiman. Kwaku Okyere, Rick Campbell, Alex Montagnese, Amanda Corner, Alexa MacDougall, Allyson, Sarah, Michelle #MSND #shakespeare #theatreprecovid
January 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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also grateful to @aviewfromthebox.bsky.social #thetempest #rusticlestempest 🙏
January 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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slowly migrating over to this platform. a reminder of our Tempest from this time last year. always grateful to @glennsumi.bsky.social #physicaltheatre #rusticlestempest #thetempest
January 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM