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iPhoto caption: Amy Keating, Zorana Sadiq, Katherine Cullen, and Jean Yoon in 'Dance Nation.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Dance Nation vaults into the feral, ecstatic mess of girlhood
Played by a cast whose ages range widely, the characters exist in two tenses at once: present-day adolescence and retrospective memory, living these tender years shadowed by the adults they’ll become.
iPhoto caption: Kristen Thomson in 'Fulfillment Centre.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine’s Fulfillment Centre asks how we end up alone, together
The production understands the play’s themes, yet feels limited by a script that delivers a package it never fully opens.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Soulpepper and Outside the March effectively drown Uncle Walt’s highly manicured public image in acetone, leaving the audience with a grotesque portrait that feels at once comically exaggerated and painfully accurate.