Book and lyrics by Tracey Power Music co-written with Steve Charles Three Sisters Theatre Company Directed by Bronwyn Steinberg It is more than 350 years since women were forbidden to perform on English stages. The ban was finally lifted after the Restoration in 1660 when King Charles II issued a patent announcing: forasmuch as …
One of the pleasures of Kanata Theatre’s latest offering is its success in delivering a succession of plausible, fully-realized characters. Furthermore director Jim Holmes and his cast are attentive to the nuances, both comic and wistful, of Christopher Durang’s amusing yet curiously heartfelt comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. To be sure, these …
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike By Christopher Durang Kanata Theatre Directed by Jim Holmes Take a helping of Chekhovian despair to spice the lives of three discontented siblings named after characters from the 19th-century playwright’s works. Stir in a blender and deliver a modern domestic drama with absurdist leanings. This may not sound …
If you you lower your defences, Theatre Kraken’s production of Cry-Baby is capable of providing you with an uproariously enjoyable time at the Gladstone Theatre. This is less due to the material — an uneven stage musical derived from John Waters’s 1950’s movie starring Johnny Depp — than to the spirited ensemble work of a …
Cry Baby The musical A Theatre Kraken Production adapted from the film written and directed by John Waters , the book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, songs/music by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, incidental music by Lynne Shankel Not since Tim Oberholzer* and his merry band of performers let loose at …
Think I’m Dead , written and performed by Al Lafrance. Presented by Thunder Blunder Theatre. Reviewed by Ryan Pepper Al Lafrance’s one-man show I Think I’m Dead is a captivating autobiographical story of neuroses, obsessions, alternate dimensions, hurricanes, depression, and just wanting to sleep. The show, performed at the Gladstone Theatre for one night only …
Cry-Baby Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan Music by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger Based on the 1990 John Waters movie A Theatre Kraken production directed by Don Fex The opening scene features a character being wheeled around in an iron lung expressing his regret that he didn’t have his polio shot, while …
Lynn Saxberg Ottawa Citizen Published on: May 6, 2018 | Last Updated: May 6, 2018 11:18 PM EDT Up to Low by Ottawa author Brian Doyle is set in 1950 and takes the audience from Ottawa’s Lowertown to a family cabin in Low, Que. By Brian Doyle, adapted and directed by Janet Irwin NAC English …
Ottawa to Wakefield in 1950 was a bumpy road covered with pebbles that used to make the car shake until the fenders came loose. Such was the trip made by local cottage goers into the Francophone Pontiac but nothing as harrowing or as colourful as writer Bryan Doyle suggests . His memories are piled high …
Reviewed by Natasha Lomonossoff on May 4th, 2018 The English theatre season at the NAC is closing with what is meant to be a feel-good musical on life in the rural Gatineau Hills during a more idyllic time (or at least, the 1950s). Based on a book of the same name by popular local …