Lisa McKeown

The Diana Tapes is about the disclosure of Princess Diana’s recorded confessions of her personal experience as a member of the HRH to journalist Andrew Morton. Morton’s book, “Diana: Her True Story – In Her Own Words,” which came out in 1992 and caused a rift between Diana and the Royals, has just had its […]

  Lisa McKeown

Will Eno has been described as a ‘modern Samuel Beckett,’ and after seeing Nightfall Theatrics’ production of Title and Deed currently onstage at the Tarragon Workspace, I can see why. This is a story about nothing and everything at the same time. It is the existential journey of a man who finds himself out of […]

  Lisa McKeown

Sarah Marchand and Matt Jones have collaborated to write and create a theatre ASMR experience: the show incorporates elements of ASMR (in both performance and social media) while telling the story of a young woman battling insomnia and anxiety. If you haven’t heard of it, ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. It’s the soothing […]

  Lisa McKeown

Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE Erased: Billy and Bayard (A) Created and performed by the Queer Songbook Orchestra, featuring Andrew Broderick and Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, the show weaves together the narrative threads of two 20th century musicians. Billy Strayhorn and Bayard Rustin were both black and queer and who contributed significantly to the Civil Rights […]

  Lisa McKeown

Read All Our SummerWorks Reviews HERE August, Augusta (A) Created, choreographed, and directed by Jocelyn Mah, and winner of The Winchester Prize, this piece depicts two musicians and a trio of female dancers. The first dancer comes out dressed as a man, dancing not unlike how I recall male characters dancing in old Warner Brothers […]

  Lisa McKeown

Flooded is set on a boat, but not just any boat. One warm and sunny (thank god) Toronto July evening I found myself on The Pirate Life Boat sailing around the Toronto Islands, witnessing a beautiful, funny, and intense spectacle. Directed by Ara Glenn-Johanson, the production consists of four performers (Hayden Finkelshtain, Melanie Leon, Duncan […]

  Lisa McKeown

Produced and presented by Libby Brodie Productions, Permanence is an hour long emotional tornado. And I mean that in a good way. Written by Cyd Casados, the play depicts the relationship of Steve (Ludovic Hughes) and Rebecca (Samantha Michelle) – an English painter and an American doctor, respectively. Their affair starts of heatedly in Steve’s […]

  Lisa McKeown

Eric Peterson is back once again performing Billy Bishop – a Canadian war hero from the First World War. Forty years since its creation, this production celebrates not just Peterson and Maclachlan Gray’s creation, but brings Soulpepper through Canada’s own 150th birthday. The set stands out immediately as interesting and effective: around the stage set […]