Odyssey Theatre and the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival offer exciting new summer theatre pass. Two of Eastern Ontario’s biggest outdoor theatre companies are teaming up this summer to offer audiences a new type of ticket. They’re calling it the 416 Play Pass, and it gets its holder into a show at both Odyssey Theatre and …
25 – 1919 Paris France is billed as a “performance event ”- even a play if you wish, by Elliot Delage . It can only be called a work in progress, far from even seeking some sort of ending (ateleological!) because although the movements are absolutely precise, the structure flounders all over space and time. …
Quatre heures du matin », adaptation et mise en scène de Hassane Kassi Kouyaté 22 juin 2017 Présenté au Tarmac du 23 au 24 mai, 2017 Cette adaptation par Hassane Kouyaté, du roman d’Ernest J. Gaines (nommé aux Prix Pulitzer et Prix Nobel de littérature), est une production de Tropiques Atrium ( Fort de France) oὺ …
When an actor is making jokes about the people who came in late and lets the audience know that they will be attending a “circus of life and love”, one knows that they’re in for an amusing time. From the colourful and cutesy setting to the outlandish costume Rachelle Elie wears for her initial role …
I think it’s a fact that a lot of young people don’t always know how to feel about their home country. Canadians of all ages have a love-hate relationship with Canada, but maybe those of a younger generation feel it more. As social justice pushes forward, it becomes harder to uncritically enjoy the history, and …
Reviewed by Ryan Pepper One of the more difficult plays at Fringe to understand, 25 is the type of work where you can see it with your friends, go out for drinks afterwards, and all reach a different conclusion to this puzzling play from Parisian theatre duo 1919. Superficially it’s about 25-year-olds, as all the …
Reviewed by Ryan Pepper Fool Muun Komming! is a hilarious, beautiful, sensual, absurdist masterpiece of comedy, drama, and physical theatre and movement bound to leave you stunned Fool Muun Komming by Sam Kruger is probably the hardest show at Fringe to describe. That includes in writing, verbally, through mime, what have you. Which is a …
Created and performed by jem rolls Playing at LIVE! on Elgin, 220 Elgin. jem rolls is back and this time he’s talking about the brain. That’s right, his brain, your brain, everyone’s brains! Why? Because the body is a mystery and the biggest mystery about the body is the mind. Or, put another way, he’s …
My biggest question after taking in The Ultraviolet Life is what’s this play about? Whatever is going on in this production is still buried deep in the unconscious world of its creators. Burlesque, of course, has been around since the Greeks. The satyr play featured vigorous leaping, horse-play, and lewd pantomime – all of which …
Reviewed by Ryan Pepper: All shows at Studio Leonard Beaulne Banned in the USA: a ramble through a comedian’s funny and bizarre life (and probably the biggest takedown of American Airlines in modern theatre) Gerard Harris’ work Banned in the USA tells a pretty bizarre but weirdly relatable—or at least understandable—story about working in …