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Sonja Mills
Sonja Mills began her playwriting
career in Toronto in 1994 with a quirky little comedy called Dyke
City. That little play spawned a sequel, and then a whole bunch
of them. The series was both critically acclaimed and wildly popular,
achieving cult status during its six-year, ten-episode run at Buddies
in Bad Times Theatre. A film version pilot of the series also enjoyed
comparable success on the gay/lesbian film festival circuit.
Dyke City addresses
the politics of gender and sexuality at the local level. In The Danish
Play, Mills maintains a focus on these substantive themes, but looks
at identity in the national and international context. The play examines
events in the life of one remarkable woman, Mills’s great-aunt, and
asks fundamental questions about the mutual constitution of personal
and political identity, public and private life.
Sonja still lives in Toronto,
and is still writing.
“Canadian theatre is horrifically
under-funded because frankly, when you put a bunch of money into art
– you don’t get that money back right away. It comes back years
and centuries later in the form of tradition and culture.”
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