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iPhoto caption: Grahpic designed by Shovemiya Packiyanathan, with photos by Michael Cooper and Emelia Hellman.
Pamela Mala Sinha passes the torch of Crash and looks toward a new era (part three)
“The play doesn’t need me,” says Pamela. “I knew it, as a playwright, but this just proves it. I felt validated in my belief that Crash has never been my play. It belongs to everyone or anyone who wants to step into The Girl."
iPhoto caption: 'Dance Me,' choreographed by Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ihsan Rustem. Photo by Marc Montplaisir.
“It’s very ambitious,” says artistic and executive director Alexandra Damiani. “Each choreographer has a clear vision and language. Leonard Cohen wrote, ‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.’ When I see Foniadakis work with Cohen’s music, he finds the cracks between the notes, beats, and words.”
iPhoto caption: 'Une Traversée' puppet design by Natacha Belova et Tita Iacobelli. Photo by Pierre-Yves Jortay.
REVIEW: Montreal in March? Bring on the puppets.
The 21st annual Festival International de Casteliers featured an energizing series of Quebecois and European productions that took the medium of puppetry in surprising directions.
iPhoto caption: Jeremy Lewis and Violette Kay in 'Whalefall.' Photo by Maxime Côté.
REVIEW: In Montreal, Whalefall explores humanity’s fraught relationship to whales
The show feels like an act of grieving, set on a stage and shared with an audience. Rather than trying to assuage our sadness — or our guilt — Infinithéâtre’s Whalefall lets us sit with our emotions.