2015 opening of Up to Low at Arts Court Archives - Capital Critics' Circle / Le cercle des critiques de la capitale

Original production of Up to Low in June 2015

By Alvina Ruprecht | April 7, 2018

Reviewed by Alvina Ruprecht on June 8th, 2015 Theatre in Ottawa and the region An Easy Street Production and the Ottawa Children’s Theatre in association with the Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2015, musical theatre

Photo. Sarah Hoy

The Arts Court Studio was miraculously transformed by designer Brian Smith, into a semi-country space , part barn, part lakeside cottage country, part bar in a pub somewhere up in the bush of Gatineau, Pontiac County and beyond. The story is narrated by young Tommy (Lewis Wynne-Jones) who takes us from Ottawa, back to his past and all the memories of his parents, and the Irish immigrant community that existed in the early 1950s.
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