Things that don’t make for prescient, contemporary theatre: excessive swearing, pointless tapping and swiping on (turned-off) smartphones, the objectification of tangential women, or references to recent developments in North American golf culture. The Gladstone’s An Act of Grace by John Muggleton, directed by Venetia Lawless, unfortunately relies upon these signifiers of modernity in its …
“ I hear, I hear, come finish with thy tale. Is it soon ended?” Nathan the Wise There are moments of heightened intensity in the theatre when time seems to stand still, signaling to us that this is the dramatic kernel that distils the central meaning of the play. We pay attention to Nora’s …
The Tashme Project: The Living Archives is coming to the Great Canadian Theatre Company as part of the 2019 Prismatic Arts Festival Sept 18th – 22nd Artist Talk to be held in room 310 @ 11:30AM, Friday September 27th at 135 Séraphin Marion Showtimes: Wed Sept 18 & Thurs Sept 19, 6pm | …
30 août 2019 De Magali Mougel : « Suzy Storck » et «Lichen » De tous les spectacles vus cet été, il me restera indélébile, comme un souvenir stupéfait, les images, la colère et les mots de « Suzy Storck », une pièce écrite par Magali Mougel, jeune dramaturge rentrée au bercail après diverses pérégrinations. Bien lui …
28 août 2019 Madinin’art. Au bourg de Bussang, quand je sirote mon café matinal au seul petit bar du coin, qu’à l’heure de l’apéritif je me mêle incognito aux buveurs du soir pour un vin d’Alsace obligé, je m’émerveille d’entendre parler théâtre, de trouver là ornant le mur un portrait au fusain d’Antonin Artaud ; …
Scheduled for a month-long run as a result of popular demand, Ring of Fire is a production which one would naturally expect much from. Indeed, the musical by Richard Maltby Jr. and William Meade, billed as a celebration of the life and work of prolific American musician Johnny Cash, features numerous songs by him. …
Chicago. 1928. The hard-boiled boozy reporters on the crime beat are sitting around a table, playing poker and wisecracking about the fate of the last murderer to hang before the electric chair arrives on the scene. It isn’t easy passing the time like this, running interference between the police and the mob, making stuff up, …
Arthur Miller’s classic play about the 17th century witchcraft trials in colonial Salem, Massachusetts has long been seen as a barely disguised parable of the contemporary hysteria surrounding the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was an historical moment of post-war panic in which Communists were seen as infiltrating every corner of American society. Courtroom oaths of …
PERFORMANCE INFO: Cliff Cardinal CBC Special Type of Performance: Theatre Dates: September 15th @ 7pm September 16th @ 5:30pm September 17th @ 8pm September 18th @ 8:30pm Venue: GCTC – Studio Ticket Prices $23 (Gen Tix) / $19 (Sr./Student) Purchase Tickets Use the promo …
PERFORMANCE INFO: Zoey Roy Type of Performance: Spoken Word (double bill with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre – Blood Water Earth) Dates: September 15th @ 8pm (Artist Talk Back) September 16th@ 7pm Venue: GCTC – Mainstage Ticket Prices $23 (Gen Tix) / $19 (Sr./Student) Purchase Tickets Use the promo code “prismatic” to waive the $5 …