How and when can you separate the artist from the art? My chat with renowned playwright, Steven Elliott Jackson about his work A Question of Character.

"Stakes and Embers in association with Minmar Gaslight presents “A Question Of Character” at the Aki Studio at Native Earth, January 17-25, 2026.

Following such critically acclaimed works as the lightning-in-a-bottle The Seat Next To The King and the multi-Dora nominated Three Ordinary Man, playwright Steven Elliott Jackson returns to Toronto with the critically lauded 2025 Hamilton Fringe hit, A Question of Character.

In 1977, a film journalist knocks on a door in Paris, eager to interview a famed director whose skill she admires. On the other side of the door, awaiting her arrival, is Leni Riefenstahl. They have time. They have tea. Things go as planned until they don’t in thiunpredictable historical drama, directed by Alice Fox Lundy and featuring Paula Wing and Tanisha Taitt."

https://nativeearth.ca/shows/all-shows/a-question-of-character

Until January 25, 2026

Aural Pleasure: audiobooks, music, and spoken word

I don't often get a chance to play more than one or two selections of music so I'm happy to have the chance to share this curated cross-genre selection of music and spoken word with you. Enjoy!