the Gladstone 2018 Archives - Capital Critics' Circle / Le cercle des critiques de la capitale

A Night in November: a riveting piece of theatre and a legendary performance!!!

By Iris Winston | March 16, 2018

A Night in November by Marie Jones. Performed and directed by Pierre Brault

The Irish Troubles were raging in1994. Therefore, it is not surprising that the World Cup series qualifying football match in Belfast between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland — won by the Republic (later that year to win the World Cup) turned into a battlefield.

Prejudice and violence coated in national loyalty were laid bare at the game. In A Night in November, this is the glass through which Kenneth McCallister, a Protestant dole clerk in Belfast, views his life. …

Theatre Kraken delivers some blazing moments in Othello

By Jamie Portman | February 6, 2018

There’s an undeniably powerful moment in Theatre Kraken’s production of Othello when the tormented Venetian general of the title unleashes his savagery on Iago, the diabolical ensign who has been slowly and subtly driving Othello to his doom.

By this point in the play, Iago has already planted the canker of suspicion in the man he hates — the suspicion that Othello’s wife Desdemona has been unfaithful. So this sudden explosion of wrath comes as Iago is stepping up his insinuations. Othello abruptly loses it — grabbing the man he considered a friend, locking his head in the stocks, and proceeding to beat him mercilessly. …