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Its World Theatre Day, but also Women's History Month, so I let loose my rabid feminism by opening with snapshots of women doing theatre work.

First, The Official Word

People in Toronto are celebrating culture, work, and working-class culture with the MayWorks festival. In Haiti, the city dubbed our national cultural capital is shaking off the dust, shoving a wide-enough path in the rubble to dance down the street to celebrate its patron saint day - bonne fête Jacmel! It has been a year since I started this - I'll admit, very timid - blog. And Haiti, rarely out of the international spotlight these last 20-odd years, has been thrust forward again in the most painful circumstances in our history.
Nou pran kou tout bon vre. But culture soldiers on!

After missing its initial runs in Port-au-Prince in 2003 (two sold out shows - both with standing ovations) and a showing in Miami an 2006, I finally lucked out this summer and got to see Florence Jean Louis Dupuy's Haitian adaptation of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues - or rather, Pawòl Chouchoun (a common Haitian Creole euphemism for, you know, down there).