Category: Arts News

Sudbury’s Miriam Cusson receives 2017 John Hirsch Director’s Award

Sudbury’s Miriam Cusson receives 2017 John Hirsch Director’s Award

Toronto, September 6, 2017 – Sudbury theatre director Miriam Cusson will receive this year’s John Hirsch Director’s Award on Tuesday, September 12 during the Zones Théâtrales festival at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. The same evening, the festival will feature a workshop presentation of Miriam’s newest work, Parmi les éclats, which will premiere in 2018 at the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario.

Miriam Cusson. winner of the John Hirsch Award for directing.

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Évènement au Quat’Sous: À te regarder, ils s’habitueront.

Évènement au Quat’Sous: À te regarder, ils s’habitueront.

Un évènement inédit

Fébriles, la vingtaine d’artistes et d’artisans d’À te regarder, ils s’habitueront se préparent à prendre d’assaut la petite scène du Quat’Sous! Du 5 au 30 septembre, ils vous convient à un grand happening théâtral aux horizons multiples.

Quelle parole nous distingue, nous rassemble? Qui sommes-nous, qui sont les autres? Face à ces interrogations, les instiguateurs du projet Olivier Kemeid et Mani Soleymanlou ont ressenti un sentiment d’urgence, une envie de bousculer les idées reçues et d’interroger notre histoire. Ils vous partagent leur questionnement dans cet article de La Presse.

Pour ce vaste projet inclusif et rassembleur, ils ont donc convié six metteurs en scène à explorer, avec leurs acteurs, la question dite «de la diversité». Ces six inspirants créateurs vous parlent plus de leur inspiration et leur démarche dans cet article du Devoir.

Vous pouvez voir toute la troupe en plein travail dans de magnifiques photos signées Jérémie Battaglia, juste ici.

→ Plusieurs soirs affichent déjà complet, il reste de bons billets pour les représentations du 5 et 6 septembre, au tarif prévente de 26$.

 

A Comedyof Errors: a new adaptation of Shakespeare in Gananoque

A Comedyof Errors: a new adaptation of Shakespeare in Gananoque

The Comedy of Errors. Photo Stephen Wilde

 

Thousand Islands Playhouse opens a Shakespearean farce with a vaudeville twist.


The Comedy of Errors is a madcap adventure of mistaken identity and the chaos that ensues. “The Comedy of Errors was produced in the Playhouse’s first season in 1982, so we’re looking forward to reviving it for our 35th anniversary,” says Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran. “Five of the Playhouse’s favourite performers are back to take on one of history’s funniest plays full of magic, slapstick, and many quick changes!”

Thousand Islands Playhouse
185 South Street, Gananoque
www.1000islandsplayhouse.com 

THE NAC NAMES KEVIN LORING AS FIRST EVER ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF INDIGENOUS THEATRE

THE NAC NAMES KEVIN LORING AS FIRST EVER ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF INDIGENOUS THEATRE

Kevin Loring. Photo: Canadian Press.

June 15, 2015 – OTTAWA (Canada) –The National Arts Centre’s President and CEO, Peter Herrndorf announced today that Kevin Loring will be the first ever Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre at the NAC, taking up his post on October 16, 2017.

 The first season of the Indigenous Theatre Department will co-incide with the NAC’s 50th Anniversary in the 2019-2020 season.

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« L’Autre Rive » – “La Otra Orilla” de Ulises Cala

« L’Autre Rive » – “La Otra Orilla” de Ulises Cala

— Selim Lander, critique invité —
Spectacle présenté à Fort-de-France, Martinique
« Jusqu’où faut-il aimer ? Il faudrait un manuel pour expliquer cela. »

Cette phrase prononcée par un homme qui va émigrer en abandonnant sa fille n’est qu’un aspect d’un texte qui brasse toutes sortes de sentiments, de sensations, depuis les jeux amoureux pleins de malice jusqu’à la désespérance profonde en passant par les moments d’attente indécise hantés par la crainte des « persécuteurs ». Nous sommes sur une île, Cuba sans nul doute, entourée d’une « mer interdite ». La télévision qu’on entend parfois s’exprime en espagnol (« la télévision est une chose répugnante » répètera l’homme à plusieurs reprises).Ils sont deux comédiens qui interprètent plusieurs rôles, principalement celui d’un homme et d’une femme sur le chemin de l’exil. Ils attendent le passeur qui les conduira sur l’autre rive d’un fleuve (ou n’est-ce pas plutôt le détroit entre Cuba et la Floride ?), vers leur eldorado.

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Canada Dance Festival July 2 to 16th. Ottawa

Canada Dance Festival July 2 to 16th. Ottawa

Le jardin des délices
Cie de Marie Chouinard
Photo: Sylvie-Anne Paré

Welcome to the 2017 Canada Dance Festival
New Dance from Canada’s best

The Canada Dance Festival in partnership with the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene celebrates 2017 with a diverse program of new Canadian Dance. Following the successful CDF 2016 and building toward our next full festival in 2018, this year’s edition will showcase powerful movement and beautiful movers – all telling uniquely Canadian stories through dance.

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Brault is back at the Gladstone in May. Elmyr de Hory returns!!

Brault is back at the Gladstone in May. Elmyr de Hory returns!!

Photo: McGihon /Postmedia Pierre Brault.
 Coming to the Gladstone in May,  2017  WATCH for it!!
A piece of relentless theatre history rejuvenated by the  Gladstone..
Artist, fraud, chameleon, victim.  Elmyr de Hory was all of these, and arguably the most notorious, successful and prolific art forger of the twentieth century.  Never fully recognized as an artist in his own right, and eternally frustrated by this fact, de Hory turned to painting in the style of his contemporaries, including Matisse, Picasso and Modigliani, and passing off the results as originals with astonishing success.  After decades spent toiling in anonymity, Elmyr de Hory, at once the swindler and the swindled, finally reveals his own private truth as told by playwright and actor Pierre Brault.

 In his own incomparable style, Brault crafts myriad characters, from Orson Welles and Zsa Zsa Gabor to de Hory himself and the artists whose work he forged, to tell a fascinating story that explores the very nature of art and identity.


Portrait of an Unidentified Man premiered in Ottawa in February, 2005 as part of the National Arts Centre English Theatre subscription season.  It was subsequently revived at the NAC in July, 2005 due to popular demand.  The following year the production toured to the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, London’s Grand Theatre, the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in St. John’s, NL. and a New Zealand tour in 2009.
Read some of the reviews of that period even if the shows are off the air…

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Colloque sur Migration/Représentation/Stéréotypes

Colloque sur Migration/Représentation/Stéréotypes

Antony and Cleopatra
Stratford Festival 2014

 

 Colloque  aura lieu les 28-30 avril 2017, à l’Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Des informations sur nos conférenciers principaux :  http://artsites.uottawa.ca/studies-migration/fr/conference/key-notes/

nos événements spéciaux et nos présentations: http://artsites.uottawa.ca/studies-migration/fr/conference/ se trouvent sur le site Web du colloque.

 Le programme du colloque  : http://artsites.uottawa.ca/studies-migration/fr/conference/conference-program/

 Au plaisir de vous rencontrer en personne dans une semaine. English follows.

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Saint Lawrence Shakepeare returns this summer with the Three Musketeers

Saint Lawrence Shakepeare returns this summer with the Three Musketeers

St. Lawrence Shakespeare announces MainStage cast, it’s brand new
“SideStage” plan, and the title of it’s popular Community Play!
!
April 18, 2017 – The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival announced details of it’s
programming and the casting for the summer season! !
Following last year’s swords and sandals hit Julius Caesar, this summer will transporting
the audience to ancient Egypt for the romantic sequel, Antony & Cleopatra in addition
to producing an original musical adaptation of the rollicking and swashbuckling story
The Three Musketeers. !
The MainStage cast features a host of talent! Returning for their 3rd consecutive years,
are veteran actor Richard SheridanWillis, who blew audiences away last year in the
title role of Julius Caesar, as well as the award-winning fight director, actor and
choreographer, Jonathan Purvis. !

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From Paris to Broadway: Pops Concert at the NAC

From Paris to Broadway: Pops Concert at the NAC

 Pops Concert, National Arts Centre, Conductor: Jack Everly

In introducing From Paris to Broadway, principal Pops conductor Jack Everly said that the aim of the French-themed concert, which had been two years in the making, was to create the spirit or feeling of Paris.

And this is exactly what happened in a joyous collection of music, song and dance that evoked visions of the Folies Begères — the famous cabaret musical founded in Paris in 1869 — (think rhinestones and feathers, Everly advised) such singers as Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf, and composers closely associated with the glitter of French entertainment, such as the German-born Jacques Offenbach (think Cancan). Music from the musical Gigi and the delicate rendition of the Moulin Rouge Waltz added a further dimension to visions of Paris.

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