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Les 26 et 27 avril JAZ de Koffi Kwahulé. Mise en scène Alexandre Zeff, Cie La Camara Oscura
JAZ. Avec un seul Z. C’est ainsi qu’on l’appelle. Avec un seul Z puisque l’autre lui a été profondément et durablement amputé. Jaz a été victime d’un viol. D’une amputation, donc. Texte puissant, mise en scène et interprétation au diapason : attention, événement. …
Carried away on the crest of a wave
By David Yee, directed by Kim Collier, NAC English Theatre production, to April 1
Reviewed Saturday by Lynn Saxberg, the “Ottawa Citizen
Carried away on the crest of a wave, David Yee’s ambitious play about the after-effects of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, is a boundary-pushing piece of Canadian theatre that dispenses with tradition.
Instead of telling one heroic story about the natural disaster that claimed more than 200,000 lives, it tells nine stories, each featuring decidedly non-heroic characters in different parts of the world.
As staged by the National Arts Centre’s English theatre department, the new version of the play consists of a series of nine vignettes, evidently one less than its Tarragon Theatre debut in Toronto three years ago. Although tightened up, it still has a running time of two-and-a-half hours, including intermission, and there’s a lot to pack in.
Each vignette features unrelated characters in different settings, their locations and dates indicated on a helpful timeline that runs across the front of the stage……
see http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/theatre-review-carried-away-on-the-crest-of-a-wave
Since 2011, PACT, together with l’Association des théâtres francophones du Canada (ATFC) and the Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC), has commissioned a message each year to promote and celebrate World Theatre Day from a distinctly Canadian perspective.
In 2018, this message has been written by Nina Lee Aquino and translated into French by Djennie Laguerre.
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Iris Winston, a member of Capital Critics Circle, recently published an opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen titled Why #MeToo is not for me. Ms. Winston wrote the piece as an expression of her own beliefs and not as a representative of Capital Critics Circle. Capital Critics Circle believes that censorship is the antithesis of all art and we support the free expression of opinion.
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look for articles by Yana Meerzon, Alvina Ruprecht, Jamie Portman, Laurie Fyffe, Iris Winston, Jane Baldwin, Maja Stefanowska, Jim Murchison, …
Immigration and family are centre stage in Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Photo from the opening production of the Factory Theatre in Toronto., May 2016..
Press release from the GCTC
Trey Anthony, the acclaimed playwright of the smash hit Da Kink In My Hair, brings her newest work to the Great Canadian Theatre Company with How Black Mothers Say I Love You. With a powerful nod to the Caribbean community, Anthony weaves a complex and heartwarming story of immigration, family, and sacrifice. Making her directing debut in Ottawa, Kimberley Rampersad helms a cast of newcomers to the GCTC stage: Bénédicte Bélizaire, Lucinda David, Malube, and Samantha Walkes. How Black Mother Say I Love You runs on the GCTC stage from March 6 – March 25. …
The Clean House. Photo: Andrew Alexander The Clean House presented by Three Sisters Theatre Company at the Gladstone on Wednesday is a well crafted comedy that does not exploit cheap laughs. Rather it deftly explores relationships, anxiety, love and death with thought provoking and illuminating experiences. Sarah Ruhl has crafted a play that explores relationships between women with a sharp focus on love, mortality, rivalry, jealously and forgiveness with balance and wit. …