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iPhoto caption: The original company of 'Sisters of ’78' at Blyth Festival. Photo by Felix Vlasak.
The facts are shocking, but the characters' determination to see it through — and ultimately change Ontario labour laws — is inspiring.
iPhoto caption: 'Documents Perform 3.' Photo by T Photo Factory.
Joining online from across the Americas, more than a dozen artists, artistic producers, cultural leaders, and policymakers add live suggestions to the document, together transforming stuffy bureaucratic language into a rowdy patchwork of compassionate imagining.
iPhoto caption: Virgilia Griffith and Mazin Elsadig in 'Wine in the Wilderness.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Wine in the Wilderness lays bare several of its characters’ emotional cores. But because it takes so long to reach that vulnerability, the revelations land with inadequate force.
iPhoto caption: Billy Lake and Aidan de Salaiz in 'The Maids.' Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: In Talk Is Free’s The Maids, reverence and rebellion share the same room
For all her impatience with the play, director Jillian Keiley chooses to stay rigorously within its terms, pushing its logic to an extreme and letting its contradictions show.