STRATFORD, Ont. — That could well be a white lab coat that Lucy Peacock is wearing when she first seizes our attention in Paradise Lost. To be sure, there are glimpses beneath of a clinging black outfit that makes its own insinuating statement, but the laboratory touch seems particularly appropriate given that this is …
1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, ON. Prairie Nurse, the latest show in TIP’s summer 2018 lineup produced in association with Toronto’s Factory Theatre, is billed as a “culture-clashing comedy” centering around the arrival of two Filipina nurses in a small Saskatchewan community in the 1960s. The play, written by Filipina-Canadian playwright Marie Beath Badian, …
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The Gladstone Theatre turns 10 years old this fall. That may make it a mere stripling in the arts world, but in the past decade it’s taken on a very adult role in Ottawa’s theatre scene. And if its upcoming, jam-packed season – 24 shows by more than two dozen different companies – is any …
STRATFORD, Ont. — The Stratford Festival’s 2018 playbill is now complete — and the final entry is an absolute winner. Napoli Milionaria! is the name of the play, and it’s a wonderful, steaming broth of an entertainment — robustly staged with understanding and affection by festival artistic director Antoni Cimolino and featuring a stellar cast …
Wajdi Mouawad, artiste libano-canadien aujourd’hui à la tête du Théâtre de la Colline à Paris, a donné à voir dans la Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes, en 2009 au Festival d’Avignon, les trois premières pièces de sa tétralogie : Littoral (l’eau), Incendies (le feu), Forêts (l’air et la terre). Trois tragédies pour parler de la …
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ont. — Peter Hinton is a director who has long thrived on risk-taking. Indeed, he would probably tell you that the right to take risks is a necessary component of meaningful artistic activity. Along with that component comes another necessity — the freedom to fail. There are times when Hinton, the former head …
STRATFORD, ONT. — By the time the assassination scene arrives in the Stratford Festival’s new production of Julius Caesar, the sense of foreboding is palpable. It’s not just the soothsayer’s urgent warnings to “beware the Ides of March” or the fearful nightmares of Caesar’s wife who pleads with him to remain at home and …
Angel Street (Gaslight) By Patrick Hamilton, Classic Theatre Festival Directed by laurel Smith PERTH, Ont. — The Perth Classic Theatre Festival has come up trumps with a sizzling revival of Patrick Hamilton’s renowned psychological thriller, Angel Street. Director Laurel Smith and an excellent cast steadily crank up the tension in the production that opened …
Viewed at the 1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, ON Performed in the more intimate space of the Firehall Theatre, Midsummer (A Play with Songs) by Scottish playwright David Greig is perhaps the most thematically unique offering in TIP’s summer 2018 season. In contrast to the easy-going comedies and fun musicals, Greig’s work is one …