Reviews
iPhoto caption: Josie Smith, Kendra Cordick, and Lilly Logue in 'When You Close Your Eyes.' Photo by Angel Szafranko.
REVIEW: When You Close Your Eyes is a slow, smooth descent into madness
The new indie musical asks just how far someone might go to escape the misery of everyday life, and what (or who) they might sacrifice in the process.
iPhoto caption: Noam Tomaschoff in 'Our Little Secret.' Photo by Amanda Chieco.
REVIEW: Mirvish’s Our Little Secret has room to dig deeper
Leaning into the quirkiness of the situation and the performer’s charm, Our Little Secret, as the adjective in its title suggests, is at its heart still a little Fringe show that could.
iPhoto caption: Members of the company of 'Rhinocéros.' Photo by Mathieu Taillardas.
REVIEW: TfT’s Rhinocéros soaks Ionesco’s existential malaise in broad farce
Performed in French with English surtitles, the production at times falls into a familiar trap of staging the so-called Theatre of the Absurd: trading existential anguish for comic eccentricity.
iPhoto caption: 'Little Elves.' Photo by Sacha Crow.
REVIEW: This fall in Calgary, musicals are doing the monster mash
As a lover of all things dark ‘n’ disturbing, I couldn’t wait to sink my fangs into a pair of spooky productions.