Clocking in at only 20 minutes, Erum Khan’s self-created show Becoming seemingly starts, reaches its climax, and ends in the blink of an eye. Which is a shame, since the basic elements of this production are all intriguing and could benefit by being fleshed out more. The play centers around a single character (Khan) trapped …
British playwright Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs is a whirlwind of a script that takes us through the hesitant, full throttle, fractured, and deeply in love relationship of a couple who embark on the perilous journey of deciding whether or not to have a child. He is an artist musician, of sorts, and she is a PhD …
In our current moment, a play about the struggles of unemployment and being unable to pay one’s rent would seem to be quite a relatable one (especially for millennials). Beginning with three roommates who fail to make the monthly payment to the landlord, the story spirals into occasions of utter chaos and extremity (including when …
Beginning with a gaggle of teenagers blown onstage by a powerful wind, Third Wall Academy’s (TWA) Fringe production of James Fritz’s Start Swimming (directed by James Richardson) . Kristina W att is the Artistic Director of TWA, and was the Creative Assistant who worked on the play. 100 Watt Productions is the co-partner of TWA, …
God of Carnage Stendhal X, Montreal “We’re always on our own everywhere,” says one of the characters toward the end of God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s acute 2006 play about the fragility of our civilized veneer. That aloneness is precisely what Stendhal X’s adaptation spotlights as we witness two couples meet for the first time …
Photo of Puja Uppal as Noor Inayat Khan, Agent Madeleine, by Alex Henkelman. Recruited by an understaffed and overworked British intelligence agency, led by Leo Marks, played by Nicholas Amott, Noor Inayat Khan, code name Madeleine, played by Puja Uppal, is parachuted into France. Her mission: spy on German troops and communicate her findings by …
French chanteuse Edith Piaf and Belgian singer Jacques Brel, two giants of romantic music in the 20th century, never shared the stage together nor even met in their lifetimes. This simple historical fact does not phase Melanie Gall, an internationally-acclaimed vocalist who brings the most famous songs by these two artists together in a performance …
Reviewed by Ryan Pepper Performing to a packed audience, Melbourne’s Josh Glanc never missed a beat in his hilarious new stand-up/sketch comedy show Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian. Glanc opens the show like all Netflix comedy specials seem to these days, with a big musical number and triumphant entrance to thunderous applause from the …
Reviewed by Ryan Pepper It’s taken four hundred years since the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed Richard III for a damning look at Richard’s wife and former queen Margaret of Anjou to appear on stage. The Lady Chamberlain, a troupe of young actresses, have given the English queen and wife of Henry VI a not-entirely-flattering portrait …
Dead Unicorn Ink, by Patrice Forbes With the advent of blockbuster superhero films and the MeToo movement, the place of women in these films and their original source material (comic books) is receiving ever greater scrutiny. A Girl in the Fridge, created and directed by Patrice Forbes and produced by Dead Unicorn Ink, attempts …