Tarragon Theatre
iPhoto caption: Clare Coulter in 'Queen Maeve.' Photo by Jae Yang.
Clare Coulter brings a lifetime of experience to Judith Thompson’s Queen Maeve at Tarragon
“This is the first stage play I've done in such a long time,” says Coulter, “but I feel I've really learned what the stage asks of the actor: that they go beyond what we used to call the footlights and settle in to where the audience is.”
iPhoto caption: Ordena Stephens-Thompson and Tony Nappo in 'The Neighbours.'
REVIEW: In Nicolas Billon’s The Neighbours, everyone’s a bystander
Green Light Arts’ The Neighbours, playing at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, encourages audiences to reconsider their assumptions about the comfort of spectatorship.
iPhoto caption: Lisa Nasson and Nicole Joy-Fraser in 'Mischief.' Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: In Tarragon and Native Earth’s Mischief, the jokes aren’t the point
Mischief may not fully cohere into a singular statement, but it leaves behind something quieter and more human: the feeling of having spent time inside a community, listening to its jokes, its arguments, and its silences. It is a play full of questions — some answered, many not — and it trusts the audience enough to live with that uncertainty.
iPhoto caption: Dwain Murphy and Virgilia Griffith in 'a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone
(-noun).' Photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: Obsidian and Tarragon co-production reflects on the inadequacy of language
a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (-noun): the title says it all, offering a definition for an absent word. The thing is the thing unsaid. For the play’s three couples, language falls short: beautifully, tragically, sublimely.