NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — You know there’s something wrong with the trendy 1985 version of Dracula currently available at the Shaw Festival when you quickly start yearning for the old Hamilton Deane-John Balderston stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s celebrated vampire shocker. To be sure the latter is somewhat creaky and happy to indulge in old-fashioned melodramatics. But …
Equivocation by Bill Cain Kanata Theatre Directed by Alain Chamsi Kanata Theatre’s production of Equivocation contains so many fine moments that you’re left saddened by the fact that it ultimately doesn’t work. Director Alain Chamsi and his colleagues have worked with diligence and discernment to bring shape and substance to a play that uses an …
Equivocation By Bill Cain Kanata Theatre Directed by Alain Chamsi Equivocation is a multi-layered celebration cum mockery of Shakespeare, combined with a questioning of the accuracy of the accepted version of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I. It also attempts to answer the perennial …
Marco Vidal en Mendoza (Los Colochos de Mexico). Vivian Martinez y los colegas de la Casa de las Americas Patricia Ariza de la Candelaria, Colombia. (Camilo). Photos: Alvina Ruprecht. Ce Mayo teatral (2016) fut à la fois l’ouverture, par le théâtre, vers une nouvelle vision des Amériques et un voyage vers le passé. …
Triunfadela, conception et mise en scène de Nelda Castillo, présenté à La Havane. Photo: Ernesto Manuel Loupez. Comédienne: Mariela Brito. Triunfadela ou la montée d’un Ubu cubain L’incorrigible Nelda Castillo, cette artiste cubaine, qui a fondé la troupe El Ciervo Encantado, veut produire une réflexion sur les rapports entre l’art, l’histoire de son pays, les …
Undercurrents: theatre below the mainstream (February 10–20. 2016) & Arts Court Theatre / www.artscourt.ca Programme: A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR by Rachel Blair (dir. David Matheson) – Patrons’ Pick and Best of Fest at The Toronto Fringe Festival FORSTNER & FILLISTER PRESENT: FORSTNER & FILLISTER IN: FORSTNER & FILLISTER by Will Somers & David …
Best show Bursting into Flames Inescapable The Elephant Girls Three Men in a Boat Weird: Witches of Macbeth Best performers in Fringe Martin Dockery (Inescapable/Bursting into Flames John D. Huston (Screwtape) Margo Macdonald (The Elephant Girls) Daniel Tobias (The Orchid and the Crow) Gemma Wilcox (Magical Mystery …
Photos from the Kanata Theatre website. The Faustian theme goes curling in The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon. W.O. Mitchell’s Canadianization of bargaining with the Devil worked in its original incarnation as a radio play in 1951, then as a television play in 1965 and, finally, as a much-lauded comedy on stage in 1979. But, …
Photo: Amy Keith Acteurs gauche à droit (left to right) Cynthia Cantave, Charles-Smith Métellus, Vanessa Schmit-Craan Capital Critics Circle is happy to present this excellent news about Intercultural Theatre. We reviewed “The Other Theatre’s” production of Macbeth at the Segal centre and we are very happy this company received an award. Their production was excellent …
David Warburton as The Player. Photo by Andrew Alexander This performance is a unique event in the annals of professional theatre in Ottawa. The original production of Brian K. Stewart’s play, also directed by John Koensgen, was received with such enormous enthusiasm by myself and my colleagues that the New Theatre of Ottawa won the …