Mama Mia!, the well-loved jukebox musical featuring ABBA’s greatest hits leads the audience on a romp through a sun-drenched Greek island and fills them with a heady combination of romantic, carefree, and nostalgic sentiment. In order for this to really work, a production needs to match the light and energetic pace. Suzart’s well-directed production of the …
Photo Andrew Alexander, Herbie Barnes and Phillippa Domville, The split is clear upon first glance. He wears muddy jeans and rain boots, while she dons pristine khakis and purple Crocs. His space boasts shoots of wild rice, while hers stands testament to an outdoor grill. Between our two figures lies a shoreline, a dock, …
Posted by Maria Delgado | 10th Oct 2019 | Review, Spain, Translation, United Kingdom Olwen Fouére (foreground) as the Mother in “Blood Wedding”. Photo: Marc Brenner. A Production posted on thetheatretimes.com. Yael Farber is an extraordinarily talented director of South African origin who presented her version of Mies Julie in Montreal in 2014. Mies Julie …
Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson created Homer’s Coat, a theatre company that explores ancient literature for new plays. Both the well-known actor O’Hare and the director Peterson developed “An Iliad” a work that is based on Homer’s legendary poem of the Trojan War, but cut to 100 minutes of playing time. The title indicates …
Written by Kennedy Fiorella, in Yana Meerzon’s theatre criticism class at the U of Ottawa The story of familial sacrifice is one that runs through Canadian identity. In Jeff Ho’s Trace, he masterfully “traces” his family history through the three generations of women who came before him. As he physically embodies the characters of …
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Créée en 1992 cette œuvre, de l’auteur américain David Mamet, a donné naissance à un événement scénique d’une grande importance qui, malgré son ambivalence irritante semble annoncer bien avant son temps, les conflits inspirés du mouvement ‘balance ton porc’ en Europe, (#Metoo en Amérique). On pourrait même parler d’une œuvre visionnaire qui prévoyait la rage, …
Jeff Ho wrote and stars in trace. “We are women who do what must be done.”So says the cigarette-puffing, mahjong-addicted great-grandmother in Jeff Ho’s one-man play trace, now at the NAC. The fallout of doing what you must do, especially in fraught circumstances, is the subject of Ho’s taut, chamber piece about three generations of …
David Mamet’s exceptional talent as a playwright, as a creator of film scenarios and producer of films, is fueled by a deep-seated anger against corruption in the US, inspired and even fascinated by all manner of falsehood such as we saw in the Hollywood drama Speed the plow– at the Gladstone Theatre in 2011 …
Savannah Sipping Society is a story about four lonely women who, in the midst of their personal life crises discover the value of friendship, by mere chance. Although the theme might sound stereotypical, and its TV sitcom style offers no novelty, the play is hilariously funny and entertaining – just the thing for the end …