Prince(Tony Adam), Isobel (Ashley Rissler), Margaret (Jaclyn Martinez) Photo. Marianne Duval Written in Poland in 1938 but first published in 1958, Ivona (Princess of Burgundy) is Wiltold Gombrowicz’s first play. The author left Poland in 1939 and spent the rest of his life in Argentina, Germany and France, where he died in 1969. His plays …
Written and performed by Melanie Karin and David Benedict BrownThese two writers, performers are also excellent actors and they have produced a most unusual show that translates portions of Shakespeare’s best known plays, into moments of real theatre as reinterpreted through Hip Hop language and culture. Hip Hop steps have now entered the world …
Southam Hall at the NAC (Ottawa) vibrated with the arias of Donizetti last night as the firey Egardo (Marc Hervieux) and the silver toned Lucia (Lyubov Petrova) vowed eternal love and then melted into passionate embraces and heart wrenching despair. Blood, vengeance, madness and suicide all the stuff of shameless melodrama because absolutely enthralling …
Greg Kramer as The Player. Photo: Barbara Gray. The Player’s Advice To Shakespeare constitutes an anti-Establishment rant — Elizabethan style. Ottawa playwright Brian K. Stewart has a provocative agenda in taking real-life historical events — James I’s ruthless suppression of the peasantry during the latter’s 1607 revolt against encroachments on their liberty and economic survival …
The new theatre Plosive productions has created a monster! They have taken a talented cast, a most witty classic of the Western English language stage, and turned the performance into a mish-mash of styles and staging errors that even makes the good actors look weak. Despite moments that do work, one has the feeling that …