Anton Lipovetsky
iPhoto caption: Shekhar Paleja, Emily Dallas, and Tyrell Crews in 'Dial M For Murder'. Set design by Anton deGroot. Photo by Trudie Lee.
REVIEW: Theatre Calgary’s Dial M For Murder queers the classic with style and suspense
The cloaked romance that sparks the homicidal scheme at the core of play is no longer between Margot (Emily Dallas) and a Mark, but rather a Maxine (Olivia Hutt). Yes, exactly — the original heterosexual coupling becomes refreshingly queer.
iPhoto caption: Steven Gallagher for Intermission. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
A love of theatre runs so deeply through Gallagher’s bones that you’d think it was a path he began to follow as soon as he could walk and talk. But for a boy who came of age on a rustic farm in Quebec and favoured sports venues over stages in high school, an eventual career in theatre was hardly a given.