Reviews
iPhoto caption: Shira Leuchter in 'The Haunting' at Tarragon's Greenhouse Festival in 2024. Photo by Matt Hertendy.
REVIEW: One-on-one play considers the hidden meanings behind ghost stories
Shira Leuchter’s The Haunting feels less like attending a seance and more like flipping through the encyclopedia of a self.
iPhoto caption: Zaiba Baig in 'The Begging Brown Bitch Plays.' Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.
REVIEW: Truth and performance blur in Zaiba Baig’s The Begging Brown Bitch Plays at Buddies
It’s in the second half of Jhooti that Zaiba Baig’s performance is transcendent. She commands the stage, moving fluidly between humour and fury, bringing the audience through one emotional arc after another.
iPhoto caption: Members of the company of 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
In a world where I wasn’t out, Wilde was there to comfort me with an aesthetic pleasure others couldn’t see. Now, I’ve been out for some time, and Earnest is with me in a new way, as a less lonely act — and, now, a loud celebration of the possibilities of queerness.
iPhoto caption: Griffin Hewitt in 'Cyclops.' Photo by Matthew Reid.
REVIEW: Kill Your Father and Cyclops: A Satyr Play ask audiences to revise Euripides
Rather than directly adapt their source texts or merely place them in a contemporary context, both plays sought to turn myths on their head by implicating the audience.