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Bridget Rielly
Bridget a B.A graduate in English with a concentration in Drama Studies and a minor in history. She is now completing a master's degree at Carleton University in English with a focus on Canadian theatrical traditions. In her spare time, she is an avid home cook, budding crocheter, and teaches swimming lessons.
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iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Luminato Festival.
REVIEW: Is Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree worth seeing twice at Luminato?
Crouch tests the limits of theatrical representation, improvisation, and authorship. While I’m usually a sucker for exactly those types of experiments, I ultimately found An Oak Tree a bit underwhelming.
iPhoto caption: Jaime Lujan in 'Reina.' Photo by Eden Graham.
REVIEW: Documenting seven Toronto indie shows, from Factory Theatre to the Tranzac Club and beyond
I’ve started writing brief reviews of Toronto productions Intermission isn’t otherwise covering, and stowing them away until I collect enough to publish in a batch. And now here I am, with seven.
iPhoto caption: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles 'rehearsal photo courtesy of Lighthouse Festival.
Three actors juggle 17 roles in Lighthouse Festival’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
“[I’ll] be taking off a full tweed suit and putting on a Victorian dress,” says actor Andrew Scanlon. “There will be a lot of coordination that needs to go on.”
iPhoto caption: 'Queen of the Night' promo photo courtesy of Luminato Festival.
REVIEW: Two site-specific Luminato concerts explore the significance of daily ritual
Grounded in a heightened sense of time and place, both Dawn Chorus and Queen of the Night Communion express curiosity about how art can disrupt patterns of living.
iPhoto caption: Justin Collette in 'Beetlejuice.' 2022 photo by Matthew Murphy.
REVIEW: For a show about death, Beetlejuice is impressively full of life
It's a thoroughly entertaining musical that even improves on the original film, adding a far more cohesive storyline, clearer character motivations, and an updated sense of humour.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Hans Ravn.
The Bentway’s Sand Flight asks how we might navigate a world remade by climate collapse
“We’re not only conveying dystopia,” says co-creator Jonas Corell Petersen. “Yes, we die. Yes, we dry out. But that makes way for something new, and the dancers carry hopefulness in their movement.”
REVIEW: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings at the Ottawa Children’s Festival/Riverbank Arts Centre
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings is a refreshing take on a literary classic that is instructive for all with its themes of spectacle and society’s fanatical mistreatment towards anything outside the norm.
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