Edgy + Hysteria: Not Like Sisters, or How Montreal’s Edgy Women and Toronto’s Hysteria Festivals Got It On Across Space and Time

Abstract

The following is a conversation between Miriam Ginestier, Moynan King, and me on the topic of the romance between the Edgy Women Festival and Hysteria: A Festival of Women. Montreal’s Edgy Women Festival, organized by Ginestier and produced by Studio 303, ran in many formations from 1994–2016. Toronto’s Hysteria was co-founded by King and Kelly Thornton and produced by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre from 2003–2004 and then directed by King and produced solely by Buddies from 2004–2009. During Hysteria’s years of existence, the two festivals shared some artists, as well as aesthetic curatorial-social-political sensibilities.