How can theatre engage with a crisis as enormous as climate change? One answer: go miniature. That’s the approach Belgian theatre companies Chaliwaté and Focus take in their co-creation Dimanche, playing at Meridian Arts Centre on February 21 and 22.
By Nathaniel Hanula-James /Feb 19, 2025
iPhoto caption: Ronnie Marmo as Lenny Bruce. Photo by Doren Sorell.
This version of Bruce is sharp as a knife, plunging headfirst into some of the comic’s more obscene bits, highlighting his hard-fought battle over obscenity laws and free speech, and making his first Canadian audience delightfully uncomfortable.
Playwright Alix Sobler has a pressing story to tell, and she pursues the Triangle Shirtwaist fire's political context sharply, if not always consistently.
By Aisling Murphy /May 6, 2022
iPhoto caption: Original photography by Gabriela Osio Vanden.