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WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION
A staged reading
March 7 – 9, 2025
An audacious new play by Sky Gilbert
Directed by Edward Roy
Starring Elley-Ray Hennessy
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Sky Gilbert
Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre — one of the world’s largest gay and lesbian theatres — from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 9 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards as well as the Pauline McGibbon Award, The Silver Ticket Award — and the ReLit Award for his novel An English Gentleman. There is a street in Toronto named after him: ‘Sky Gilbert Lane.’
“You’re always going to be lonely and depressed if you think about how you look, where you are going, how you are feeling. That’s because the self is a dead end. If you concentrate on that, God help you.”
– Katherine Hepburn
ALL THE LATEST NEWS…
February 13: Spizzy LIVE! Ep. 11 Taping
Spizzy is hosting a very special edition of SPIZZY LIVE at The Liar’s Club in February! To promote the upcoming fundraiser and live reading of WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION, a new incarnation by the provocative Sky Gilbert, Spizzy will be interviewing the show’s brilliant director Ed Roy, and the star; the iconic Bon Vivant, Elley…
WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION
WITNESS FOR THE PERSECUTION – A Staged Reading Red Sandcastle Theatre March 7 – 9, 2025
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WITNESS THIS! – A Witness This Productions Fundraiser, curated and produced by Elley-Ray Hennessy. A Glorious, Bewitching, and Dazzling Evening of Glamour, Mystery, and Madness! Get ready for the kind of night that shatters the ordinary and plunges you into a world of wonder, whimsy, and wickedness; an outlandish evening of avant-garde extravagance!
January 9th: Spizzy LIVE! Ep. 10 Taping
SPIZZY LIVE! returns to The Imperial Pub in January with two very exciting special guests; it’s a double Bruce Feature! January’s Liar’s Club will welcome heritage practitioner, writer and performer Bruce Beaton, and concept artist, and co-founder and chief archivist of the International Gay History Archive Bruce Eves.
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