Red Sandcastle Theatre
iPhoto caption: Photo by Jack Woolfe.
REVIEW: In Síofra at the Red Sandcastle, fairy lore curdles into communal dread
Spindle Collective’s unnerving Síofra takes us to 19th-century Ireland, where folklore gives a watchful community a language for the uncanny.
iPhoto caption: Photos of Eric Woolfe (by Dahlia Katz), Catherine Savoie, Evan Klassen (by Jerry Grajewski), and Heather Redfern.
"Arts centres are going to have to apply to a new housing and infrastructure ministry program, which hasn’t been created yet, in order to access funds," says Heather Redfern, executive director of the Cultch in Vancouver. "So I’m very concerned that federal [funding] for cultural infrastructure in this country has completely disappeared."
iPhoto caption: Pip Dwyer, Jeanie Calleja, and Natalia Bushnik in 'Night at the Grand Guignol.' Photo by Jack Woolfe.
REVIEW: Eldritch’s Night at the Grand Guignol features spurting blood and severed eyes
The show hits the pulpy B-movie bullseye at which the indie company has long taken aim. Over the course of four playlets, a catalogue of deaths unfurls — shlockily! gorily! — in macabre locales.
iPhoto caption: Scott Wentworth and Walter Borden in 'An Orchid and Other Such Lilies and Lies.' Photo by Seamus Easton.
Playing at the Red Sandcastle Theatre, Dandelion Theatre's An Orchid and Other Such Lilies and Lies is an existential rumination on life, death, and friendship — and for me, a gentle reminder to tell people you love them while you still can.