Written by Stéphanie Turple, directed by Kevin Orr. The new lab O space in the Ottawa ARt Gallery is proving to be a perfect source of stage creativity thanks to the transformative possibilities of the area. It is also an excellent site for students and writers in local experimental shows as well as classes for …
Traduction de Michelle Allen, mise en scène d’Olivier Normand Photo Stéphane Bourgeois Imposer une mise en scène dominée par la présence corporelle des acrobates qui font irruption dans un paysage éclairé de couleurs lumineuses, baigné d’une belle musique mais pris en charge par des comédiens qui hurlent comme des forcenés (notez surtout Maude Boutin St-Pierre) …
Texte de Guy Lafages, adaptation et mise en scène de Luc Saint-Eloy En 1967, un événement presque anodin a eu lieu à Basse Terre, la capitale administrative du Département (D.O.M). Le romancier Max Jeanne s’est inspiré de cette rencontre fortuite entre le propriétaire d’un magasin de chaussures et un cordonnier, pour fabriquer un roman …
Victoria Luloff, Robin Guy, Cassandre Mentor and Rebecca Benson star in The Revolutionists. Photo: Andrew Alexander Marie Antoinette’s wig could be a play unto itself. An eye-grabber in the Three Sisters Theatre Company’s smart production of Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists at The Gladstone, the wig is a beehive of crumpled, handwritten pages emblazoned with a …
Posted on Artsfile.com Feb 9 2019 The undercurrents theatre festival is under way and our Patrick Langston took in three shows. Here is his take. Raising Stanley/Life with Tulia Hard to fathom, but there are actually people who aren’t mad about dogs — their intelligence, their steadfastness, their boundless optimism. Kim Kilpatrick is not one …
Février est, pour certains une période où, par l’intermédiaire du Carnaval, l’on se doit de tout oublier. Mais d’autres, au contraire, ont choisi de faire de février est un mois de recueillement, consacré à la mémoire des événements tragiques de 1967 et au procès des 18 Guadeloupéens qui s’ensuivit, en février-mars 1968, pour « atteinte …
Reviewed at the Grand Theatre in Kingston, ON Though an exploration of women’s lives in 1920s Ottawa, Hannah Moscovitch’s What a Young Wife Ought to Know is not a play for the idle history buff. Rather this exploration is a visceral and sometimes discomforting one, as Moscovitch exposes the struggles many working-class women faced without …
First published on Artsfile, January 29 2019 One of the first things we learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s play about King’s final night before his assassination on April 4, 1968, is that he has a hole in one of his socks. He’s just entered his no-frills room at …
An updated version of Othello now playing at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge originated at the renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Director Bill Rauch was interested in exploring the similarities that that he believes underlie the play with the problems and politics of today’s U.S. where prejudice against people of color, ethnic minorities, and immigrants …
Conversing with an angel in his Lorraine Motel room, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, a Black Theatre Workshop and Neptune Theatre Production, attempts to explore what might have been going through Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s head during his last on Earth. The production, directed by Toronto-based ahdri zhina mandiela, stars Letitia Brookes as motel maid-turned-angel …