Time has passed and even if Alegria does not capture the in depth artistry brought about by memory, desire and all that swirls in a mind returning to its past inspired by Fellini’s cinema that made Corteo so special (see below******), Alegría, created in 1994, did define a brand new circus aesthetic that has grown …
Peter Robb Artsfile.ca, August 9, 2019 Jean Grand-Maitre (centre-left) in rehearsal. Photo: Maximillian Tortoriello In late July, ARTSFILE travelled to Banff, Alberta, at the invitation of the Centre for Arts and Creativity to meet with the artistic director of the Alberta Ballet and member of the Order of Canada, Jean Grand-Maître. The native of Aylmer, …
A play based on the memoir of Globe and Mail journalist Ian Brown’s experience of bringing up his disabled son, The Boy in the Moon by playwright Emil Sher, may not seem like an obvious production to mount at a theatre driven largely by tourism. The choice made by artistic director Brett Christopher to include …
À Almada, une question essentielle : « De quoi sommes-nous faits ?! » Une des qualités du festival d’Almada, et non des moindres, est de faire se rencontrer, sans avoir aucunement à craindre la comparaison, le théâtre lusophone dans sa contemporanéité et les théâtres différents venus d’autres pays, théâtres émergés d’autres continents, certains nous disant être pour la …
« Si c’est un homme » (Se isto é um homem) & « Jeanne d’Arc » (Joana d’Arc). Des monologues — Par Janine Bailly — Le festival d’Almada ne se limite pas à une forme de spectacle, mais se déploie de la performance exceptionnelle abondamment commentée et saluée d’Isabelle Huppert, dans Mary disse o que disse, jusqu’à des créations …
Le festival d’Almada, côté monologues « Si c’est un homme » (Se isto é um homem) & « Jeanne d’Arc » (Joana d’Arc) À Almada, une question essentielle : « De quoi sommes-nous faits ?! » Festival d’Almada : dernières nouvelles de la guerre ! Au festival d’Almada : des difficultés du vivre en famille Au Festival d’Almada : un théâtre d’engagements « As três sozinhas » …
The Bonds of Interest is thought to be Jacinto Benavente’s most important play because it bridged the gap between the 19th Century Spanish melodramas, playful French inspired commercial forms of musical theatre, patriotic nationalism and uncritical visions of Spanish Society by rejecting the bourgeois festive theatre that hid Spain’s real problems of that period. …
Outwitting The Devil, Akram Khan’s latest work, truly stood out within the line up of very diverse works featured at the 2019 Avignon Festival. Performed at the magnificent Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes this work resonated the architectural grandeur of the space and echoed its spiritual splendour. It reflected the palace’s glory …
MAHMOUD & NINI is an unusual show –not only it does not look like your typical proscenium theatre, with elaborate plots and developed characters, colorful costumes and sets; it also reminds one of a lecture hall. Two people –Mahmoud: a Egyptian man, black, homosexual, speaking Arabic; and Nini: a French woman, white, with a shorthair …
Following in a similar thread to recent sports-based Canadian musicals such as The Hockey Sweater, Western Canada Theatre’s mounting of Glory by Tracey Power tells the story of the Preston Rivulettes, a record-setting women’s hockey team in the 1930s. Meant as a narrative of empowerment, the play also touches on issues of sexism, anti-Semitism …