REVIEW: Okay, you can stop now at Theatre Passe Muraille/Shakeil Rollock/b current
This piece captures the unrelenting, emotional weight so many of us feel with impressive accuracy.
This piece captures the unrelenting, emotional weight so many of us feel with impressive accuracy.
It sounds grim, right? Well, I’m not going to lie. It’s HEAVY. But, thanks to Bonnell’s compassion, empathy, and quick wit, it’s as funny as it is intense.
Williams and The Herd ask a lot of questions without providing any answers and that uncertainty is the space where Beagan and team shine.
We wanted an opportunity for more flexible seating so you could have different configurations — we wanted technical upgrades and general upgrades also. Later we recognized the need in the community to have a dance-friendly space. So that’s a need that we’ve found and added. Like with any kind of process, I think we started with an idea and started to break that down. I think we’re still in that process.
“The show must go on” is not true. We could have laid this one to bed. But I think it’s been a real treat for us to rally around this little project, embrace this humble medium, and make something.
TO Live President Clyde Wagner discusses their upcoming Dance Collection with Canadian Stage, featuring acclaimed local and international artists.
Canadian filmmaker Patricia Rozema talks about adapting Mouthpiece for the screen, the challenges of theatre and film, and her career as a filmmaker.
Had things gone differently with Soulpepper’s programming, another production entirely might have been in its place this season. And, had things gone differently in Jani’s early years as an artist, she might not have grown into the fierce matriarch of Indigenous theatre that she is.
“There is nothing more powerful than tiny little stories that infiltrate a dominant story and change it greatly.”