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The Taliban Don't Like My Knickers

    Hey Torontonians! Lend me your ears! My friend Tom Berend wants to tell you about his new play called  " The Taliban Don't Like My Knickers" which is part of the Toronto Fringe Festival . Here's the backstory in Tom's own words. I volunteer teaching older children with severe reading disabilities, and I was posting questions to an on-line dyslexia discussion forum in the UK. Somehow, a dyslexic theater group picked up my name not realizing that I was in Canada, and Lennie, the producer sent me an invitation to a theater performance they were producing that weekend; a shoestring affair for dyslexic actors and writers in the backroom of a pub. Now, I had never heard of dyslexic theater, and I'm betting you haven't either. I was intrigued. The play they were marketing was about as small-scale as you can imagine. And yet here they were, these dyslexic young people embracing literacy and storytelling, proudly and confidently telling their...