REVIEW: Festival TransAmériques — Weekend One
The first weekend of FTA was exhilarating and eclectic — and even gave this Toronto-based theatre critic a sneak peek of Canadian Stage’s next season.
The first weekend of FTA was exhilarating and eclectic — and even gave this Toronto-based theatre critic a sneak peek of Canadian Stage’s next season.
Black histories and calls to culture within media (theatre, song, film, theory, poetry, language) ensure the culture endures as a living memory.
Kurios, save for some questionable representation, is fantastic: its context is a mess. Both can be true.
Discord and Din Theatre have announced their cast for Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again!
Though feminism had of course been around for years, it had become a pressing topic for their generation at that time. And as women working in the theatre. “We were trying to establish ourselves as people in an industry that usually looked upon us as less than,” says Martha, “and as adjuncts, and as supporters, and subordinates.”
The success of Crow’s Theatre’s excellent production of The Flick, clocking in at around three hours, provoked this next thought – I have never heard anyone ever say, about any show, in my entire life, NOT EVER – “I don’t think it was long enough.”
Whether that was in Montreal or from mentors in Edmonton, I had this image in my mind of this terrible place where people were always mean and dreams went to die.
We all have demons inside of us. We all have those monstrous thoughts, but what is it about our circumstances that allows us to act on them?
“It may be over a hundred years ago when The Cherry Orchard was written and first performed, but there is nothing about it that is passé.”
Internment was a defining collective experience, yet the ways in which we do or do not remember it remain at odds between generations.
As its newest production—The Children, starring three Canadian acting legends—hits the stage, artistic director Eda Holmes looks to a future of showcasing Montreal artists at Centaur Theatre Company.
Historical fiction allows playwrights and audiences alike the freedom to imagine the struggles, sorrows, and victories of the people who came before us and to move beyond the constraint of fact.
Two women at the top of their respective fields have faced surprisingly similar obstacles over the course of their seemingly different careers.
And the winners, hands down, of the Canadian Theatre Halloween Costume of the Year 2016 are…
Our Prime Minister has never even hinted at building a wall and, more importantly, he is a real treat to look at.
“After a day of rehearsal as Lady Macbeth I’m craving chicken hearts, drafts of blood, and things like that.”