Marius von Mayenburg, author of The Ugly One, representing the new young German Theatre, is performed here in the English translation by Maya Zade , the version used for the creation at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2008 . Mayenburg, as a translator himself, interested in the works of the late …
Nixon’s Nixon by Russell Lees opened on Broadway in 1996 almost two years to the day of the ex-president’s death. The play, a two hander, takes place in August of 1974 in the chair filled Lincoln sitting room at the White House where Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State and National Security Adviser …
Mòshkamo: “ Finding Wolastoq Voice” reveals the founding cosmogony of the East Coast peoples. This production from Theatre New Brunswick is based on a text by Natalie Sappier (Sammaqani Cocahq -the Water Spirit), a multi-disciplinary artist whose work unfolds on a frontal stage – a space in the round would have been much …
Let’s be clear from the outset. This performance has absolutely nothing to do with Surrealism, nor is it too long. Rituals go on endlessly and repeat themselves non-stop. Clearly this particular theatre-ritual deals with one of the most disturbing and shameful situations we have ever experienced on our collective territory: the murder of …
Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, as its title implies is a musical theatre piece. It deals with a boys’ boarding school, the Charles R. Drew Prep School, whose students are African-Americans, many of whom will be the first in their family to attend college. Life at the school is difficult for some of …
The Shoah has a well defined meaning in contemporary history but clearly, choosing to produce such a work dominated by the theme of these child refugees from the victims of Nazism, highlighted by the exceptional musical talent of the woman who creates the event, is a courageous undertaking that emerges as a perfectly relevant topic …
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Following the production of The Boy in the Moon, put on by the 1000 Islands Playhouse in August, Ellie Moon’s docudrama Asking For It is the second production at this theatre to broach a more difficult topic. This effort by TIP to branch out thematically in its choice of productions should be applauded, …
No two ways about it: Opening night of Marie Clements’ play The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the NAC was significant. It marked the revival of a respected writer’s story about murdered Indigenous women that, including its premiere in 2000, has had only a couple of previous productions (yes, alarm bells did chime at that …
“Is it really important to cling to our lost identities? What is a life lived between two worlds? What is a migrant? A refugee? A mutant?” There is an important backstory to the Stratford Festival’s brilliant and timely production of Lebanese-Canadian Wajdi Mouawad’s Birds of a Kind, which brings a remarkable initiative between the …