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BAD POETRY
upcoming presentation!
Sara Porter performs the original solo during Festival de Théâtre des Amériques at...
La Poêle
5333 Av Casgrain, #307, Montreal
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Friday May 30th at 3pm
Saturday May 31st at 1pm
Sunday June 1st at 11am​
Bad Poetry is being presented in a double bill alongside Susanna Hood's "Homing."
More information on the Studio Show here.
These showings are free of charge.
Seating is very limited.
Email sara@saraporter.ca for reservation.
recent presentations
Photo by Fran Chudnoff
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Bad Poetry : The Duet
SOLD OUT in TORONTO at IGAC Studio / Toronto, April 11-13, 2025
What Toronto Audiences said...
"Wonderful show!"
"Fantastic performances!"
"Funny, clever, poignant, silly, educational, totally amazing!"
"I had so much fun!"
PRESENTED at OutFest - Bus Stop Theatre / Halifax, April 23-27, 2025
Review_Wavyes, Halifax
“a kaleidoscope of speech and movement, poetry and dance”
“linguistics of a body's language”
"uncategorizable dance piece"
Created by : Sara Porter
Performed by : Sara Porter and Jessie Garon
Creative Consultant : Katherine Duncanson
Clown Consultant : John Turner
Supported by generous contributions from The Lindy Green Family Foundation,
KM Hunter Foundation, and Toronto Arts Council.
About the Work:
"Bad Poetry: Live in [Your Town]!" is an upbeat, lo-tech performance with absurdist wordplay, dance, clown & costume. It playfully argues that dance is NOT a language, explains the logistics of poetic feet, and demonstrates how people can turn into poems.
The show offers tips on how to write a bad poem, presents a rhyming couple(t) with techniques on how to defeat your poetic nemesis, and brings audience's poetic contributions onto the stage through interactive play.
Inspired by Tristanne Connolly's article, "The Importance of Loving Bad Poetry", it is a treatise for the absurdity of the creative process and the salve of self acceptance.
Bad Poetry is a thing of Delight
It's not something you should try to get right
But if you feel you really must do it
We've organized something to help you get through it
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