take rimbaud – Preview Performance

Why we picked it

by Susanna Fournier A Howland Company Production in Partnership with Buddies May 6 – 23, 2026$10 / $25 / $45 / $75all prices + fees Toronto, 2014 / Paris, 1871 / hell, always This is why I quit art. Four poets, a sloppy love triangle, an unfinished art film, and an electric oven. Can we still talk about the apocalypse as if it hasn’t already happened? It’s 2014 in Toronto (hell) and 1871 in France (also hell). The poets torture themselves to make work that means something rightnow, but time feels slippery and no narrative can keep them safe. Nevertheless! Sappho’s brand manager has suggestions for her website, and queerness is really marketable right now. Especially if the queers in question are already dead.  A performance poem traversing the worlds of Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Sylvia Plath, Sappho, and post-art school malai