Shaw Festival
iPhoto caption: Nora McLellan for Intermission Magazine. Photo by Dahlia Katz. Styled by Sonia Lewis and Dahlia Katz. Hair by Anne May. Makeup by Katelyn O'Neil.
“It’s still always that same technicolour feeling for me," says McLellan. "That little girl and this much older person are pretty much the same. I really do all of my living on stage.”
iPhoto caption: Gabriella Sundar Singh as Anitra and Qasim Khan as Peter in 'Gnit.' Photo by Michael Cooper.
REVIEW: Shaw Festival’s wayward Gnit is an existential riff on Ibsen
Will Eno's Gnit hopscotches between tones, frequently counterpointing detailed, character-driven dialogue with metatheatrical winks to the audience. Curiously, though, Carroll’s production doesn’t make similar swerves.
iPhoto caption: The cast of 'Major Barbara.' Photo by David Cooper.
REVIEW: Shaw Festival’s metatheatrical Major Barbara is sharp and subversive
Director Peter Hinton-Davis draws on a light smattering of Brechtian techniques — acknowledgements of artifice that enrich and vivify Major Barbara’s clash of morals.
iPhoto caption: Mary Antonini as Reno Sweeney with the cast of 'Anything Goes' (Shaw Festival, 2025). Photo by David Cooper.
REVIEW: Shaw Festival’s Anything Goes is a fizzy, old-school tonic
As the script pivots between romance and farce, director-choreographer Kimberley Rampersad rides the stylistic waves, creating a production that’s sometimes grounded, sometimes cartoonish.