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Today in Toronto: Hosanna

By Toronto Life

| August 10, 2011

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Hosanna Rising director Weyni Mengesha turns her hand to the Canadian canon in Michel Tremblay’s 1973 classic. After returning home from a disastrous Halloween party, transvestite Hosanna (Gareth Potter) gets into a row with her biker boyfriend, sparking serious introspection about the wear and tear of a double life, the tarnishing of dreams and the fragility of belonging. Find out more »

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