Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
iPhoto caption: Julian De Zotti, Ruth Goodwin, and Thomas Mitchell Barnet in 'take rimbaud.' Photo by Wade Muir.
REVIEW: At Buddies, take rimbaud blends critical theory with glorious theatrical mess-making
While Susanna Fournier’s script despairs about the political limits of art, ted witzel's production induces the anarchic sensation that anything is possible on stage.
iPhoto caption: William Ellis and members of the company of 'The Herald. Photo by Albert Hoang.
REVIEW: Jill Connell’s The Herald has a lot to say about potential
There’s so much to love about this smart, strange, and achingly lyrical exploration of labour and purpose. Dramaturgical intentionality falters, however, in the details.
Rhubarb! Festival director Ludmylla Reis wants artists to embrace ‘the detour’
"We do something formative at some point in the arts, and then we just continue doing that in different fonts until we’re no longer on this earth," says Reis. "The important thing is to know what that is, because you don’t want to be controlled by it. You want to be in control."
iPhoto caption: Waseem Alzer in 'The Green Line'. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh.
REVIEW: The Green Line unspools an exquisitely written narrative of love and loss in Beirut
Playwright-director Makram Ayache’s The Green Line opens by describing this “no-man’s land” as an imaginary place — a political concept that materialized in the vegetation that reclaimed the land. For Ayache, the Green Line becomes a site of reckoning, remembrance, and restitution.