The Willis featuring Yui Segawara. Photo, courtesy of the NAC. The NAC dance programme emphasized the fact that this version of Giselle, the first for the Grands Ballets Canadiens in 20 years, respects the original choreography by Petipa based on the original narrative by French writer Théophile Gauthier who was himself an exceptional dance …
The latest play in the TACTICS Mainstage Series of local independent theatre, Swedish Furniture by Ottawa playwright Matt Hertendy is a realistic look at the stresses that a hard job market, aimlessness, and lack of sense of self put on a young relationship. The premise of the play is simple but sets up the disastrous …
Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano explores love, hate, war, sexuality and religion in Northern Uganda. Act one takes place on the eve of the millennium, a moment when despite the celebrations many people worldwide felt threatened. Two sixteen year old girls Chris (Marge Dunn), the daughter of an American missionary and Adiel (Rachel Cognata), a …
Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Mar 2017 | Canada, Musical Theatre, Review A scene from Mirvish Productions’ “Come From Away.” Photo Credit Chris Bennion Come From Away, a relentlessly peppy new musical by the Canadian husband-wife team David Hein and Irene Sankoff, tells the story of how the remote town of Gander, Newfoundland (pop. …
Les 11 et 12 avril La conférence des oiseaux de Jean-Claude Carrière inspiré par Farid Uddin Attar mise en scène Guy Pierre Couleau Comédie de l’Est – CDN de Colmar Présentation de “La conférence des oiseaux” par Guy Pierre Couleau Voir sur youtube Porté à la scène pour la première fois en 1979 par Peter …
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill. A production of the MFA directing programme in the The theate Department at the U of Ottawa A talented young director brings order to Caryl Churchill’s purposely chaotic vision of the nature of contemporary communication in this world of digital reality. Vivi SØrensen whose work we have already …
Shakespeare’s King Lear is not for the faint of heart. Cruelty, despair and madness anchor the play. Fond and foolish Lear may bring on his own fate, but the treatment the aging king receives from two of his three daughters and his descent into unreality devastate us. Gloucester, Lear’s faithful supporter, gets his eyes gouged …
Life will be different this time,” says young, hopeful Marie-Joseph Angélique at the beginning of Lorena Gale’s Angélique (NAC). A sinking feeling in your gut signals no, it won’t. Your gut is right. And really, why should Angélique (Jenny Brizard) look to the future with any optimism? Brought from Portugal, she’s a black, domestic slave …
The Arts Court Theatre is the perfect intimate space for this experimental performance piece, produced as part of the TACTIC’s mainstage series . The play, written in English by francophone playwight, Mishka Lavigne, is a reflexion on the relationship between varying artistic gazes and how they apprehend the exterior world. During these discussions the set …