The National Theatre’s production of J.B. Priestley’s 1945 “An Inspector Calls” now playing at ArtsEmerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, MA remains a fascinating political theatre piece. When first completed, there was no theatre available in London so Priestly offered it to Russia where it played successfully in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) and Moscow. Its …
It isn’t easy to review a play like Behaviour, written by Ottawa playwright Darrah Teitel and directed by Michael Wheeler. All the usual things a reviewer discusses, the lighting, the sound, the acting, seem unimportant. They’re all excellent, it’s a top-notch performance in every way, but Behaviour is a play so inextricably about its message …
The title of the play (Love and Human Remains) by Brad Fraser written in 1989 and currently running at The Gladstone, has the advantage of being brief. However, the original title , Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love seems closer to the themes and content of this work that helped expand the …
Love and Human Remains explores the everlasting questions of human existence – who we are, what we want, where we go. Playwright Brad Fraser is searching for answers in the world that surrounds him, and what he finds is chilling. He follows the life of seven lonely people whose lives intertwine on many levels. Invisible, …
“Birdy,” an adaptation by Naomi Wallace of William Wharton’s once renowned 1978 novel is now playing at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the winter home of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. (In summer the company performs Shakespeare outdoors on the Boston Common.) Wharton’s best seller about a close, but unusual friendship between two boys, Birdy …
Photo Bronwen Sharp. The National Arts Centre’s Prince Hamlet from Toronto’s Why Not Theatre is a daring production that turns the classic play on its head and proves that a postmodern spin on the classics can pay off big. The play is directed by Toronto-based Ravi Jain, whose bold vision demonstrates that a 400-year-old …
Photo Bronwen Sharp That Why Not Theatre’s Prince Hamlet is daring and different is undeniable. Adapter and director Ravi Jain has taken the well-known classic and given it a gender-bending, modern, bilingual twist. By approaching the story from a different perspective, the aim is for more people to see themselves …
artsfile.ca February 28, 2019 Christine Horne (Hamlet) . Photo: Bronwen Sharp Just when you thought no one could possibly find a fresh interpretation of Hamlet, along come adapter/director Ravi Jain and his Why Not Theatre company out of Toronto. Not exactly risk-averse, they’ve sliced and diced the old warhorse, integrated a gender-bending and cross-cultural slant, …
Mireille Davidovici . Posté le 24 décembre, 2018 sur www.theatredublog.unblog.fr Mise en scène de Robert Lepage Kanata la controverse. photo Théâtre du Soleil «Il y a tellement de vents contraires», dit Miranda. La jeune artiste française, installée à Vancouver ou elle prépare une exposition: des portraits de femmes autochtones assassinées par un tueur en série …
Of Mice and Men, a story about two migrant workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, is set in California during the Great Depression in the United States. It explores the depths of misery of those whose lives were ruined by poverty, enveloped in loneliness, and whose dreams were not bound to come true. George and …