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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Invite: Book and Issue Launch Party, March 12th</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA"> Please join us to celebrate the following new releases:</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, War, Performance</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">by Natalie Alvarez</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">How immersive simulations—from a fictional border run to a mock terrorist training camp—function as cross-cultural rehearsal theatres in a time of intensifying xenophobia.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Performing the Intercultural City</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">by Ric Knowles</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;">The theory and practice of theatre across cultures in contemporary Toronto.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont";"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Canadian Theatre Review</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">
173: Immersive Theatre</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">co-edited by Natalie Alvarez and Aaron Willis</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;">First-person artist perspectives on the aims, risks, and stakes of immersive theatremaking.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Featuring:
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;">Julie Tepperman and Mitchell Cushman; Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue, and Moynan King; Alex McLean, Kate Cayley, and Stewart Legere of Zuppa Theatre; Jackson 2Bears and
Janet Rogers of 2Ro Media; Kendra Fanconi of The Only Animal; Heather Inglis of Theatre Yes; Adrienne Wong; Mark Hopkins of Swallow-A-Bicycle; Mumbi Tindeybwa and Motion of IFT; Matthew Payne of Theatre SKAM; Ken Schwartz of Two Planks and a Passion; Alex
Dault and Liam Karry of Single Thread Theatre; and Andy Moro of ARTICLE 11. </span>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">When:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA"> Monday, March 12</span><sup><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">,
7pm to 9pm</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Where:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA"> Theatre Centre café, 1115 Queen
Street West, Toronto</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Please RSVP to</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:173CTR@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: blue;" lang="EN-CA">173CTR@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">There will be delicious food, a cash bar, books for sale at a discounted price of $20,
<i>CTR</i> 173 issues available for $15, as well as featured <i>CTR</i> back issues for $10.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Generously co-sponsored by
<i>Canadian Theatre Review</i>/University of Toronto Press Journals and University of Michigan Press</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">We look forward to seeing you there!</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;"></span></p>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif, "EmojiFont"; color: black;" lang="EN-CA"> Aaron, Natalie, and Ric</span><br>
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