By: Irene Blainey , a student in Yana Meerzon’s theatre criticism class. Imagine a world so ashamed of imperfection, craving the pristine, yet ugly in nature. This is the captivating and eye-opening world presented in Marius von Mayenburg’s play The Ugly One. However, the plays transfer to the stage at The Gladstone was anything but …
Hannah Moscovitch has a rare gift for portraying sincere, nuanced relationships. To watch her characters on stage is to live their moments of pain, joy, and intimacy along with them. In her best works, the connection between characters leads the story, with social commentary powerfully rounding out the edges. In Old Stock: A Refugee Love …
Canada is built upon a core tenet of otherness; its populace is built largely upon the mosaicked lives of (genocidal) settlers and refugees in search of lives better than the ones they’ve left behind. Old Stock, presented by 2b Theatre (Halifax) in collaboration with the National Arts Centre, explores playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s personal genealogy through a …
El Ciervo encantado (la compania de Nelda Castillo) en el festival de teatro de la Habana Viernes 18 de Octubre 7:00 pm En El Ciervo Encantado Calle 18 e/t Línea y 11, Vedado (entradas a la venta desde las 3:00) ciervo@cubarte.cult.cu elciervoencantadocuba@gmail.com http://elciervoencantado.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/ciervoencantado
Augustine’s Dream was presented in July 2019 at the Providence Fringe by AnomalousCo, an interdisciplinary theatre collective that develops new productions working with their director. The group focusses on movement which is extended vertically through the use of silks, trapezes, and harnesses. Where many aerial companies work with dancers, this group works with professional actors as well …
Blasted. Photo by Ine& Thomas Photography Mental Eclipse Theater’s production of Sarah Kane’s Blasted is, admittedly, a mixed experience, but is ultimately a success, offering several clever solutions to a text riddled with difficult dramaturgical challenges. Occasionally, some directorial choices seem under-executed, and some sections of dialogue lack the performative emotional core that is so …
The exposed nerve of a reignited public tragedy hangs in the ether of Teatrul Luceafărul Iaşi. We don’t quite know what to do; is it over? How can we applaud that which has just unfolded before us? How do we, the bystanders, simply move past the performance we have just experienced? Young women and …
That the hallway beside the theatre is filled to its breaking point is a good sign; artists, critics, adults, and teenagers alike revel in a common ground of theatre-going, of festivity, and of imminent political discourse. We siphon ourselves into the newly-transformed Teatrul Luceafărul; once a large proscenium space, it has been modulated into a …
Passengers (also known by its French name Passagers) opened at Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre on September 25 for a nineteen day run. It is the eighth show the 7 Fingers as they call themselves has presented in Boston and judging by the excited audience the night I saw it, it will not be the …
The New Canadian Curling Club Photo Randy deKlein-Stinson In the context of these politically divisive times, the message of Mark Crawford’s recent play, The New Canadian Curling Club, is undoubtedly well-intentioned. The story of four immigrants who take up curling for the first time and overcome the prejudice of their coach (who undergoes a conversion …