Spent is an absurd and comical look at the 2008 financial crisis that rocked the U.S. and was felt around the world—including our own Bay Street. On the streets of Toronto, two financial executives have fallen off the corporate ladder and on to hard times. A comedic tour de force, Spent is a two-person...
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For anyone who has spent time perusing some of the odd, fascinating, and downright bizarre ads on Craigslist (or is that just me?), you will appreciate Acting Up Stage Company’s production of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata currently playing at Factory Theatre. First produced at Vancouver’s Push Festival, it...
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Cowboy Mouth is a 1971 play, written and performed by Sam Shepard (as Slim) and Patti Smith (as Cavale) about two distraught lovers hanging on to a dream that may or may not be real. While watching, I wondered if the whole play was a dream or if both characters were just high on...
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RARE is a raw and boldly emotional piece of theatre in which nine performers with Down syndrome reveal themselves for the world to see. A Patrons’ Pick at the 2012 Fringe Festival, the show is created and directed by playwright Judith Thompson, with the cast collaborating and writing most of their own material. RARE...
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Harbourfront Centre’s World Stage presents Othello, c’est qui (Othello, who’s that) from February 6-9 coinciding with Black History Month. Starring Ivory Coast- born Franck Edmond Yao as Othello and Conrnelia Dorr as Desdemona, the play is described as sharp, provocative and sensual. Othello, cest qui premiered in Kampnagel, Hamburg and won first prize at...
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Just a few weeks ago a relative and I were talking about how glamourous it would be to attend a classic masked ball. To my surprise, just days later, I received an invitation to Les Roses de la vie: A Parisian Soirée. Not quite a masked ball, but a chic soirée nonetheless. So what...
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Before I begin this review I will make the disclaimer that I am not a huge fan of pantomime and Monty Python-esqe humor and Robin Hood: The Legendary Musical Comedy is reminiscent of these styles. The piece is an original Canadian musical developed by William Foley, Jeremy Hutton, Jesse MacLean, Kevin MacPherson, and Kate...
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‘When Sisters Speak’, people always listen. After 13 years, things will be a little different as fans can expect to laugh harder, cry louder and be greatly moved as some of the biggest names in the spoken word industry descend on Toronto. ‘When Sisters Speak’ is the largest and longest running spoken word showcase...
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The tale of a Viennese womanizer and his amorous trials and tribulations is currently on stage at Tarragon’s Mainstage. The Toronto premiere of The Amorous Adventures of Anatol by Austrian playwright, Arthur Schnitzler, is a contemporary re-visioning of Anatol (1893), adapted and directed by Morris Panych. The young, incurably romantic — and indecisively neurotic...
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Crow’s Theatre/Canadian Stage presents Someone Else, an original play written by Kristen Thomson and directed by Chris Abraham. I was excited to see this production as Thomson and Abraham have been long time collaborators and created the wonderful and award winning, I, Claudia, that was later adapted into a film. Someone Else looks at...
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