review
iPhoto caption: Tessa Virtue performs at Fall for Dance North. Photo by Bruce Zinger.
REVIEW: At Fall for Dance North’s festival opening, it all came back to Tessa Virtue
This year’s Fall for Dance North opening programme gave audiences a multi-course feast that’s delish all the way through. Well, almost.
iPhoto caption: Kyle Brown in 'Bootycandy.' Photo by Roya DelSol.
REVIEW: Buddies and Obsidian’s Bootycandy is a biting carnival of laughter
Is sexual trauma something to laugh about? Are there limits to satire? Bootycandy pushes these questions to the edge.
iPhoto caption: Karen Robinson in 'Prophetess.' Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: In Tarragon’s outstanding Prophetess, language is both mighty and inadequate
Margaret’s facility with text helps her maneuver through an institution like York University, where words hold significant power. But the brilliant middle-aged scholar finds herself surprisingly unequipped to process the true sense of more elemental forces: love, grief, spiders.
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.