Thoughts on the pandemic, confinement and the theatre community in Ottawa and the region

 

You must have noticed that there have been no reviews lately. This of course reflects the situation in Ottawa  which shows us that there are no live performances happening in the city because of confinement.  However, many artsits and many theatre groups are working on virtual performances, and video tapes that reflect past performances that are being brought back to local audiences. Stratford is showing last seasons performances on a regular basis, the Gladstone has presented  Pierre Brault and is no doubt preparing other on line events.  Much behond Ottawa you can find performances coming in from Russia (Moscow), France, Germany and a lot of countries where professional theatres are still trying to show as much as they can from their facebooks or their own sites.  Take the time to google all  the theatres in the world including theatres in Canada of course and you will no doubt come across some exciting events that are often free but not always.  It is important that the artists involved make a bit of money to continue their work.

The fear we have is that some theatres will cease to exist after this confinement is over so we must support them as we can. I have not been posting  the announcements from these theatres as I should have given a lot of personal problems including a flooded  basement that took all my time to fix , Coriolanus  (Shakespeare) will  be coming in from last years Stratford Festival    this  Thursday (April  30  at 7pm ) google Stratford festival for their whole programme of filmed performances to be presented on Television…

If you  would like to announce a performance get in touch with me and I will post ir on this CCC site and on our CCC facebook.

keep safe, keep healthy tne keep supporting our artsits

Alvina Ruprecht

alvinaruprecht@hotmail.com