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Peter Hinton’s return to the NAC Stage

Peter Hinton’s return to the NAC Stage

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October 12, 2018   Artsfile.ca

When Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell opens at the NAC, it will mark a significant occasion for director Peter Hinton. Although Hinton directed the revisionist opera Louis Riel in Southam Hall last year, Silence is the first time he’s been back with NAC English Theatre since 2012, when he completed his seven-year tenure as its artistic director.

Trina Davies’ play about Mabel Hubbard Bell, the deaf wife of Alexander Graham Bell explores the story of a strong and remarkable woman who had a major influence on her famous husband but whose life is little known to most of us. Notably the production also features a blend of deaf, hard of hearing and hearing performers.

Coincidentally, Mabel was honoured this summer when the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled plaques commemorating both her and Beinn Bhreagh Hall, the Bells’ summer home in Cape Breton.

Hinton is delighted to bring the show about Mabel to his old stomping ground. …

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Bannon, Buruma and free expression: Media outlets should not be bending to the latest Twitter storm

Bannon, Buruma and free expression: Media outlets should not be bending to the latest Twitter storm

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Latest postings concerning free expression of opinion no matter what that opinion is.

Marcus Gee

The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books are two of the most respected titles in journalism. So when both of them fold under pressure over matters of free expression in the course of a month you know that we are in trouble.

The New Yorker was first to buckle. The magazine announced it was inviting former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon to the annual New Yorker Festival. He was to sit down for a conversation with editor David Remnick about “the ideology of Trumpism.” …

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A Second Time Around for “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze.

A Second Time Around for “Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze.

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Truth Values, Written and performed by Gioa De Cari
Photo Michael Hoban

Gioa De Cari’s autobiographical one-woman show Truth Values: One Girl’s Romp through M.I.T.’s Male Math Maze returned to the Central Square Theatre this September after nine years for a brief run. Although De Cari was a “recovering mathematician” at the time Harvard’s then president Lawrence Summers gave his 2004 speech in which he asserted the reason that fewer women have careers in science and math is the result of innate gender differences, it inspired her to revisit her experience at M.I.T. In 2009, when Truth Values made its début, the reaction to Summers’s speech was still strong. While male chauvinism has not disappeared, today there are considerably more women working in the world of science and math.

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Ostermeier, La Nuit des Rois à Paris

Ostermeier, La Nuit des Rois à Paris

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Ostermeier, la «Nuit» où «tout le monde est trans»

Par Anne Diatkine —

Le directeur de la Schaubühne à Berlin monte avec la Comédie-Française la pièce de Shakespeare «la Nuit des rois…» qui multiplie les jeux de rôle et de genre.

Thomas Ostermeier à la Comédie-Française ? Une évidence, du genre de celles qui paraissent se sceller sur un coin de table en trois minutes. Erreur ! La rencontre entre la maison de Molière et le directeur de la Schaubühne à Berlin n’aurait jamais eu lieu sans l’attention prolongée d’Eric Ruf, bien avant qu’il n’administre la maison de Molière, pour le travail d’Ostermeier. …

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THE LAST FIVE YEARS coming to Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe: Studio September 19 to 23.\

THE LAST FIVE YEARS coming to Meridian Theatres at Centrepointe: Studio September 19 to 23.\

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Ottawa – September 9, 2018 – First produced in 2001, The Last Five Years tells the story of a young New York couple from two very different points of view. Created by Tony award winning composer and playwright Jason Robert Brown, The Last Five Years will captivate Ottawa audiences as his characters sing through the highs and lows of a tortuous relationship. Featured in the stage production are all of the fourteen brilliant musical numbers found in the 2014 film that first enthralled audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival. …

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GCTC: Playwright tracks the Tudors and our fascination with sexual power

GCTC: Playwright tracks the Tudors and our fascination with sexual power

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  By Patrick Langston
September 7, 2018 . first posted on Artsfile.

Lydia Riding and Attila Clemann in a scene from Kate Hennig’s The Virgin Queen. Photo: Andrew Alexander

We can’t get enough of the Tudors, can we? From movies and historical fiction to the television series The Tudors, the tumultuous times of Henry VIII and his daughter Queen Elizabeth I, in particular, have long held us in thrall.
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Essai sur le métier du critique théâtral: Catherine Voyer-Lèger.

Essai sur le métier du critique théâtral: Catherine Voyer-Lèger.

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Dans Métier critique, l’essayiste et blogueuse Catherine Voyer-Léger insiste sur l’importance de la responsabilité partagée dans le mal-être de l’espace critique actuel. Les milieux culturels autant que les artistes qui y gravitent, tout en passant par les grands patrons médiatiques et ceux qu’ils dirigent – les critiques eux-mêmes –, tout le monde a sa responsabilité et doit faire sa part pour que la critique demeure vivante, pertinente et démocratique. Ne vous méprenez donc pas, malgré son titre, ce n’est pas uniquement le métier de critique qui y est analysé, mais bien l’organigramme médiatique complet, car il semblerait qu’il faille trouver un coupable.

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À la Nouvelle scène: Théâtre action présente “Feuilles vives”, Lectures des auteurs de théâtre francophones

À la Nouvelle scène: Théâtre action présente “Feuilles vives”, Lectures des auteurs de théâtre francophones

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Animée par Hugues Beaudoin-Dumouchel, et dans le cadre de Théâtre Action, la rencontre a dévoilé  les titres et les résumés des pièces et des extraits qui seront mis en lecture par huit compagnies professionnelles de partout en province, du 21 au 23 septembre prochains, à La Nouvelle Scène Gilles Desjardins. La programmation se distingue par la richesse et la variété des textes proposées, qui s’adressent à un vaste auditoire, de l’enfance à l’âge adulte.

Les textes de la programmation dévoilée sont donc :

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