By Peter Robb Ottawa’s theatre wunderkind Jordan Tannahill has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for English Drama for his collection Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom. Tannahill, who lives in the United Kingdom these days, is currently finishing work on a Virtual Reality theatre piece called Draw Me Close which will premiere at …
Ambiguity is a driving force of Quebec dramatist Carole Frechette’s gripping play, The Small Room At The Top Of The Stairs. More specifically it’s about the terrors that can lurk within that ambiguity — an element pursued by director Milena Buziak in her new production for the University of Ottawa Drama Department. Uncertainty can wreak …
Photo Niles Scott Fun Home, the multi-Tony award winning musical is making its Boston début at SpeakEasy and a fine show it is. Adapted from Alison Bechdel’s popular graphic chronicle of the same name, the musical whose book and lyrics were written by Lisa Kron and the music composed by Jeanine Tesori tells the story …
Katie Ryerson, Sarah Finn, Jacqui du Toit in The Drowning Girls. Photo: Andrew Alexander There’s not much on the stage. Three bathtubs, a metal dress form and shower head hanging above each, a backdrop of panelled walls: That’s about it. Designed by Brian Smith, it’s an apt setting for The Drowning Girls, a ghost story …
Student review by Hannah Skrypnyk in the theatre criticism class of Janne Cleveland (Carleton University) The play was written and performed in French. How do we deal with painful memories and intimate stories that beg to be told? In La Nouvelle Scène’s production of Michel Ouellette’s one-woman show, Le Dire de Di, director …
Butcher at the Grand Theatre, Kingston On, Greg Wanless as the old man. Any play that’s able to keep its audience fully captivated from start to finish is an exceptional one. Nicolas Billon’s mystery thriller Butcher is unreservedly such a play, and its effectiveness is further heightened by the smart staging and design choices …
Boston’s ArtsEmerson is currently showing Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” directed by the widely acclaimed Declan Donnellan of Cheek by Jowl in collaboration with Moscow’s Pushkin Theatre. The production is unusual not only because it is acted in Russian (with English surtitles) but also by virtue of Donnellan’s blocking where most …
David Meyers’ We Will Not Be Silent, now playing at the New Repertory Theatre at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Boston is a work whose content speaks to today’s audiences in the US. Many believe our democracy is in danger; our country is split, racism and other types of discrimination are widespread. Discussions and …
Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell NAC English Theatre Presentation By Trina Davies Directed byPeter Hinton Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell is a story about love between two geniuses – the famous inventor of the telephone and a woman of exceptional intellect and strength. Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (later Bell), who lost hearing to scarlet fever when …
This Flight Tonight, Songs of Joni Mitchell, Bear & Co. Directed by Eleanor Crowder The single most impressive aspect of This Flight Tonight is the number of musical instruments that the four-member cast play with ease. Each one handles a minimum of three different instruments from piano, drums, electric or acoustic guitar to mandolin, banjo, …