Photo: Claus Anderson Silence brings to the spotlight the romantic life of the husband and wife behind the invention of the telephone. The opening night of the 2018–2019 season found the National Arts Centre turning the spotlight on a Canadian icon and his wife, Alexander Graham and Mabel Hubbard Bell, in the play Silence. This …
Cliffhanger by James Yaffe. Directed by Joe O’Brien. Playing at the Ottawa Little Theatre to Nov. 3 Cliffhanger is at best an indifferent play, and whatever strengths it does possess are not well-served by Ottawa Little Theatre’s current production. Playwright James Yaffe’s apparent intention was to write a dark comedy-thriller about the world …
Cliffhanger By James Yaffe Ottawa Little Theatre Directed by Joe O’Brien As the plot of Cliffhanger unfolds gently, it seems that playwright James Yaffe — a respected humanities professor like his protagonist — is presenting wishful thinking about the fate of an unpleasant, incompetent department head and a particularly nasty failing student. The “Mr. Chips” …
Le tigre bleu de l’Euphrate is a solo show capturing the emotional, agonizing final night of Alexander the Great, as he lays dying of a fever.Written by Laurent Gaudé and brought to life in a beautiful performance by Emmanuel Schwartz, the performance is a monologue and meditation as the first man to make …
October 12, 2018 Artsfile.ca When Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell opens at the NAC, it will mark a significant occasion for director Peter Hinton. Although Hinton directed the revisionist opera Louis Riel in Southam Hall last year, Silence is the first time he’s been back with NAC English Theatre since 2012, when he …
Sainte Dérivée des trottoirs par Faubert Bolivar, mise en scène Alice Leclerc, interprétation Vladimir Delva Cette nuit-là, devant le parvis de la cathédrale de Limoges, le public festivalier a participé à un événement à la fois insolite et époustouflant. Au son du battement des tambours accompagné de musique de l’église chrétienne, deux figures masquées sorties …
The Last Spartan. Written and performed by Pierre Brault Sleeping Dog Theatre Pierre Brault’s signature style is to deliver a compelling one-person show in several voices. His material is invariably well researched and his switches in character always well distinguished. In The Last Spartan, first presented to great acclaim at the Ottawa Fringe in …
Fierce directed by George Walker.Black Sheep Theatre and Criminal Girlfriends Two women damaged by life bond as they reveal their secrets in a therapy session fueled by drugs and alcohol. Intense, occasionally funny, with fluid dialogue, Fierce might work were it not for the fact that one of the women is a psychiatrist. It is …
Fierce by George F. Walker. A Black Sheep productions Gladstone Theatre to Oct. 13 You have to be careful with George F. Walker. The outward trappings of his plays can be so dramatically enticing that they can fool you into thinking you’re watching something good. This prolific Torontonian knows how to set up a …
Patrick Langston October 4, 2018 0Arts file Pandora Topp as Maggie and Emmelia Gordon as Jayne in a scene from Fierce. Photo courtesy of Black Sheep Theatre. Ultimately, we’re all orphans, aren’t we? Sure, we carve out a place in the world, cultivate relationships, maybe try shielding ourselves from the truth of our loneliness with …