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Performers Onstage: Belfry Theatre

performers onstage: But he said, I can't move forward.' Bellamy declined to be interviewed for this story, but told The Globe and Mail that he left the production due to creative differences, according to Globe and Mail. He has been replaced by opera and theatre director Glynis Leyshon a Canadian theatre veteran who is the former artistic director of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company and the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, and once ran the Banff Centre's opera as theatre program. I very much understood his opinion and we are trying to do the exact thing he wants. There is a growing awareness of the importance of diversity in theatre both in the works presented and the performers onstage. In Edmonton, a recent community-theatre production of Othellowas cancelled after a white woman was cast in the eponymous role. The six plays that make up Toronto's Factory Theatre 2016-17 season were all written by people of colour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.