Seventh Stage and Nightwood Theatre’s production of Stockholm is a disturbing and thrilling piece of theatre. Bryony Lavery, best known for her Tony nominated play Frozen, makes the interesting choice of having the characters speak about themselves in the third person and in verse. This not only gives the piece a poetic quality but...
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Birdland Theatre’s Gruesome Playground Injuries is a haunting, textured piece written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph. The story follows two close friends, Doug and Kayleen’s relationship from age 8 into their late 30′s. The short, intimate scenes weave backward and forward in time. Doug endures an incredible number of injuries in his life...
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Bring It On: the Musical not only brought it, they knocked it out of the playing field. This is a fantastic show which I am sure is destined to have a Broadway run. I would be surprised if anyone found this hip, cool and current musical anything but thrilling. I was actually dreading...
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Soulpepper’s current production of You Can’t Take It With You is a delight from start to finish. The play was written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. You Can’t Take It With You is old fashioned fun with lots of laughs and some magical theatrical...
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I have attended several Canadian Stage productions and The Game of Love and Chance is definitely my favourite production to date. The play written by Marivaux was first performed nearly 300 years ago in Paris and has been freshly adapted and translated by Nicolas Billon. The plot of this madcap farce is simple enough....
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War Horse’s puppetry work is worth the price of admission alone The spectacle of the stage production of War Horse is worth the price of admission alone as the technical aspects of the show are truly extraordinary. The life sized horse puppets created by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company are positively magical and I cannot...
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Last summer during the fringe festival I saw the musical Living with Henry which was a profoundly personal and moving account of a man’s journey living with HIV. When I walked away from that show I felt uplifted and hopeful in spite of the difficult subject matter. I was changed after seeing that production...
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Pomme is french for apple is a remounted show created and performed by Liza Paul and Bahia Watson. It is a funny, fast-paced, raunchy look at what it is to be a woman. I initially wondered if there was enough meat in the script to sustain these two very talented performers but ultimately their...
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I wanted so much to love Canadian Stage’s Cruel and Tender because when a play is helmed by a director as acclaimed and talented as Atom Egoyan one expects great things, but so much of this show went terribly wrong. To begin with, I was not a fan of the writing by British playwright...
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Nightwood Theatre’s Production of The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood is a sumptuous, visual feast. This production is no small undertaking with a thirteen person all female cast, but under Kelly Thorton’s direction, they make it look easy. The choral work is extraordinarily precise which includes earthy modern dance, haunting singing and countless pictures...
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