Gregory Prest
iPhoto caption: Nancy Palk, Tatjana Cornij, and Oliver Dennis in Bremen Town. Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: Tarragon’s Bremen Town gives the golden years a Grimm twist
Prest’s adaptation doesn’t shy away from the darker aspects of Grimm’s fairy tales nor of life, and instead explores life's absurd humour with a sprinkling of schadenfreude. The show inspires guilt-tinged laughter as the characters cheerfully discuss the merits of turning their late mothers into candles.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Q&A: Casey and Diana director Andrew Kushnir on bringing the acclaimed drama to Theatre Aquarius
“There’s lots to grieve right now in the world,” says Kushnir. “But there are so few communal places to be with that grief. And I do think grieving in public normalizes a universal human condition: that we’ve all loved and lost something (time, a dream, a way of life) — or, more commonly, a dear someone.”
REVIEW: Soulpepper’s rousing De Profundis vibrates with emotion and unpredictability
De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail uses its source as starting block, not finish line. It plunders Wilde’s prose for its riches and sprints with them, never looking back.
REVIEW: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at Mirvish
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is dazzling, as magical as theatre can get.