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The Mill is definitely one of the most exciting things happening right now in Toronto theatre. It's a series of four plays written by four of the best young playwrights around these parts (Hannah Moscovitch, Matthew MacFadzean, Damien Atkins, and Tara Beagan), each centred on an historic Ontario mill. And while that might sound at first like typical Canadian theatre fodder, there is more than one twist: MacFadzean's play (Now We Are Brody), the first in the cycle, is set in 1854; Moscovitch's (The Huron Bride) is set twenty years prior; Beagan's (The Woods), another three hundred years prior; and Atkins's (Ash) is actually set in our own future. Plus, there's lots of ghosts and gore.

Drama Club is a new feature on Torontoist. Each week, we'll take a look at what's going on in Toronto's theatre scene and try to figure out which shows are worth checking out.

It's almost August, and some of us know that means it's almost SummerWorks. The juried theatre festival has taken a bit of a different turn this year, under the new artistic leadership of Michael Rubenfeld, and is branching out into music and performance art. In a shockingly tech-savvy move for the Toronto theatre community, it also has a blog. Last week, the blog started posting viral videos, including one where veteran Canadian actor/playwright Michael Healey yells for someone to "fuck his wide ass," and the video featured in this post, titled "Expression." In the video, playwrights Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, Claudia Dey, Rose Laborde, and Linda Griffiths discuss the travails of being "hot playwrights." The video, which culminates in a pillow fight, has already sparked a comments war on the fest's blog about its feminist implications.

Sarah Lazarovic––curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada––is painting a portrait of a Torontonian (be they dog walkers, donut makers, or Dan Levy) every day for one hundred days. Each Monday, we'll feature one of those portraits here.

Hannah Moscovitch's play East of Berlin is familiar territory for Tarragon's extra space. Remember Rosa Laborde's Léo, which was remounted last season? Well, here's another show in the same space that's set in South America, has political subject matter, spans the life of its main character, and features only two other actors, a man and a woman, both of whom he has sex with. This may be a bit of a tangent, but Torontoist...

After a whirlwhind, SummerWorks-filled weekend (we saw nine shows in three days for Eye - whew!), Torontoist needed a couple of days to recover from the theatre marathon. But it was all worth the risk of brain implosion, for there are some really stellar pieces playing this at this year's festival, and you still have a whole weekend left to catch them. Here are our top three: