Years ago, I saw Tom McCamus in a coffee shop. I was probably in my early twenties and I’m surely not remembering it accurately but, as the encounter lives in my mind, he was wearing a leather jacker (highly improbable) and drinking straight espresso with lots of sugar (fucking iconic). What is definitely true is […]
Click Here and Here to listen to our Fringe Audio Preview. Click Here to find our Fringe Landing Page where reviews will be posted throughout the festival. Director Alice Fox Lundy’s site-specific production of Little One is far too polished and complete for the Fringe. If it weren’t nearly impossible to produce independent theatre outside of the context […]
Twelve years in the making, Susanna Fournier’s take rimbaud is heartfelt, engaging, thoughtful, entertaining, and continuously funny. The stage juts out into the centre of the room, with the audience kiddie corner along two walls. This means the action happens along two sides of the stage, and the result was more effective than I’d […]
A perfect blend of comedy and horror, cicadas leaves you laughing, guessing, tensing and thinking at every turn. The real estate market is tough and not just now but in 2032 when our story in cicadas takes place. Tough enough that our protagonist couple Janie (Monica Dottor) and Trim (Ryan Hollyman) end up picking […]
There are few modern innovations as inspiring as National Theatre Live. Broadcasting high profile stage productions into movie theatres is an astounding arts accessibility measure that knocks hoity toity work right off its pedestal and brings it to actual audiences regardless of their location or disposable income (see also: PBS Great Performances; irreplaceable). It’s downright […]
Jen Silverman’s wild and wonderful take on Brontë-style gothic drama is currently onstage in a riotous new production at the Theatre Centre Incubator. Directed with a bold voice and a light touch by Bryn Kennedy, The Moors is a triumph that dashes expectations at every turn. Silverman’s text is anarchic and inventive while faithfully […]
It Could Still Happen is a company that grounds itself in such values as exploration, embodiment, and taking one’s time during a creative process. And so it’s not a surprise that The Herald still has a work-in-progress vibe as it begins with writer and director Jill Connell emerging, carrying their own podium amidst a fog […]
A Mirror by ARC (“Actors Repertory Company”) is narratively one of the best stories I have seen so far this theatre season. In no small part because of the twists and subversions of dramatic structure that occur that honestly need to be experienced for the first time like I did with little to no prep. […]