STRATFORD, Ont. — It’s one of many startling moments in the Stratford Festival’s production of Coriolanus. Through pride and arrogance, the tarnished hero of the play’s title has squandered the love of the Roman populace and is fleeing for his life. So we see him behind the wheel of an automobile, speeding to …
Mrs. Warren’s Profession By Bernard Shaw Perth Classic Theatre Festival to August 12 On the surface, Mrs. Warren’s Profession may simply seem to be a late Victorian shocker about a wealthy female brothel-keeper who eventually gets her comeuppance from the daughter she has carefully reared in a cocooned world of privilege and propriety. But the …
Mrs. Warren’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw at the Classic Theatre Festival. Director: Laurel Smith The world’s oldest profession, though ubiquitous then and now, was apparently unmentionable on stage. This is why Mrs. Warren’s Profession, though ready for production in 1894, was banned for several years in Great Britain and first performed in New …
Small wonder Twelfth Night is considered one of Shakespeare’s best comedies. Its plot-line of love, gender confusion and general chaos, which is kicked off when Viola, shipwrecked, washes up on the shores of Illyria and disguises herself as a man named Cesario, is superbly comic and deliciously self-aware. The play’s depiction of love – its …
Twelfth Night based on Shakespeare. A production of the Company of Fools directed by Bronwyn Steinberg. No need to outline the plot here for this pleasant evening in Strathcona Park played out on Brian Smith’s colourful set glowing with contemporary forms but perfectly adapted to this fantasy of overseas voyages, shipwrecks, disguises, impersonation, and …
Mais qui est donc Pokou, dont nous découvrions ici, entre réalité et légende, le chemin de vie ? Tout d’abord une reine africaine, Abla Pokou, née au début du XVIII° siècle nièce d’un roi fondateur de la Confédération Ashanti du Ghana, et qui dut à la suite d’événements dramatiques engendrés par une guerre de succession(s), …
The Unexpected Guest By Agatha Christie, Ottawa Little Theatre. Directed by Alain Chamsi The script of The Unexpected Guest is almost as dead as the body on stage for most of the first act. The 60-year-old whodunit by Agatha Christie has many of the usual ingredients: a dark and stormy night; a limited number …
The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie, Ottawa Little Theatre, directed by Alain Chamsi There’s no denying that Agatha Christie brings off a stunning surprise at the very end of The Unexpected Guest. It’s a pity, therefore, that elsewhere the play is often bogged down in verbosity. The current Ottawa Little Theatre production is sustained by …
While Shakespeare’s company probably never performed his plays in a park, Jacobean theatres were open-air, lit only by sunlight, and had no fancy lighting, sound, and set designs like modern theatre. Bear and Company’s performance of Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s later plays, does a lot to recreate that original Jacobean feel by staging an open-air …
Harvest performed at the 1000 Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, ON A play that is inspired by a real-life experience of his parents, Ken Cameron’s comedy Harvest successfully transmits an equal amount of seriousness and humour as directed by Charlotte Gowdy in the Firehall Theatre. Performed by an extremely versatile pair, Sheldon Davis and Catherine …