Reviews

New performance protocols for public coming to the NAC

New performance protocols for public coming to the NAC

COVID-19 Drive-Thru Assessment Centre in the NAC parking garage Starting November 19, 2020, the Ottawa Hospital will operate a Covid-19 Drive-Thru Assessment Centre in the NAC parking garage. The Centre will ensure our fellow Ottawa residents have access to convenient and accessible Covid-19 testing options. It will also provide shelter, comfort and warmth over the …

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la Zarzuela : La Tempranica et la Vida Breve!! musique de Manuel de Falla – 2 pieces courtes!!

la Zarzuela : La Tempranica et la Vida Breve!! musique de Manuel de Falla – 2 pieces courtes!!

Diptyque composé de  La Tempranica (La tôt venue)  et la Vida Breve Ces deux œuvres étaient prévues pour une seule soirée mais les contingences de sécurité on fait qu’elles sont présentées en deux soirées. Deux œuvres dont l’action est située à Grenade et dans ses environs. Le thème est similaire, une jeune gitane, belle, tombe …

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Cyprus Avenue: A Shocking exploration of trauma and Identity

Cyprus Avenue: A Shocking exploration of trauma and Identity

Reviewed by  Emmalynn Mallay   in the theatre criticism class of Patrick Langston Eric is convinced: His newborn granddaughter is Gerry Adams, the Irish Republican politician. Eric is haunted by the trauma of living through the Troubles, when Northern Ireland was rocked by bombings and conflict between the Catholic Irish Republicans and the Protestant British Loyalists …

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Cardinal: A playful battle between memory and disease

Cardinal: A playful battle between memory and disease

By Gwenith Kikkawa     student in the  theatre criticism class of Patrick Langston Cardinal takes us on an unexpected clowning journey into a man’s mind as his memory deals with an uninvited guest, Alzheimer’s disease. A unique show like this awakens our inner childlike innocence, inviting us to wonder what it might be like to lean …

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Book review: choreographic Theatre of Tensions: (post-dramatic, la modernité corporelle, multiculturelle …le nouveau théâtre..

Book review: choreographic Theatre of Tensions: (post-dramatic, la modernité corporelle, multiculturelle …le nouveau théâtre..

Português / English    Search Choreographic Theater of Tensions – Forces & Forms Maura Baiocchi, Wolfgang Pannek (2020), São Paulo: Transcultura. Foreword by Hans-Thies Lehmann Choreographic Theater of Tensions – Forces & Forms Introductional note: Shane Pike ISBN 978-85-64246-05-8 232 pages. 90 black & white photos. 50 coloured photos Taanteatro: forces & forms TAANTEATRO: [Des]construction and Schizopresence …

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Remembering the death of the great Colombian Santiago Garcia.

Remembering the death of the great Colombian Santiago Garcia.

SEMBRARON SUS CENIZAS EN SU ROSAL. EN MEMORIA DE SANTIAGO GARCÍA: NUEVA VERSIÓN DE LA OBRA NAYRA-LA MEMORIA Carlos Satizábal A seis meses de la partida silenciosa de Santiago García en el inicio de la peste del mundo en que vivimos, le rendimos homenaje al maestro y para sembrar sus cenizas en el rosal de …

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Congo Jazz Bande!!!

Congo Jazz Bande!!!

Congo Jazz Band, pour écrire, dire et jouer les vérités qui font mal 12 octobre 2020 — par Janine Bailly — « Aucune des nations colonialistes n’avait une approche humaine ». Que dire alors lorsqu’un homme seul se déclare indûment propriétaire de ce vaste territoire qu’est le Congo ? Qu’il se donne sur les millions d’hommes qui le …

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Short List for the Siminovitch Prize for Playwriting

Short List for the Siminovitch Prize for Playwriting

SIMINOVITCH PRIZE FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ANNOUNCE THE SHORTLIST FOR THE 20th ANNIVERSARY SIMINOVITCH PRIZE IN PLAYWRITING Shortlisted artists celebrated and laureate announced in first-ever virtual ceremony October 15, 2020 – OTTAWA (Canada) The Siminovitch Prize Foundation and the National Arts Centre today announced the shortlist for this year’s Siminovitch Prize, the most prestigious theatre …

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For Youth, Theatre is Action.

For Youth, Theatre is Action.

October 8, 2020 by Kristina Watt. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of inviting  a group of teenagers in Canada, ages 13-17, to consider theatre as a possible means of fighting for climate action. These ten youth, Natasha Knight, Anna Carsley-Jones, Sebastien Cimpaye, Sophie Dean, Quinn Lesaux, Jaya Matiation, Olivia Smith, …

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Avignon 2020 annonce sa programmation: l’histoire des théâtres repensée dans le cadre de nouveaux partenariats.

Avignon 2020 annonce sa programmation: l’histoire des théâtres repensée dans le cadre de nouveaux partenariats.

Journées de l’IRET en Avignon Evénement bisannuel depuis 2015 rassemblant chercheurs de l’IRET, doctorants et membres associés autour de spectacles choisis au sein du festival officiel et analysés en séminaire, journées d’étude et rencontres artistiques publiques, en partenariat avec le service des relations publiques du festival et le Centre national des écritures dramatiques de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Un …

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