During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of […]
Critic Note: The performance reviewed was of the October 1st preview Content Warning: This review will contain mentions of child sexual abuse. To view more detailed content warnings of Blackbird please check out the show page on Talk Is Free Theatre’s website. Incredible performances and chemistry between Cyrus Lane (Ray) and Kirstyn Russelle […]
During the COVID-19 lockdowns, to deal with isolation and lack of live theatre, we started gathering some of our favourite people every Tuesday & Saturday night to read scripts over Zoom. We read all 38 Shakespeare plays in six months. Then we kept going. We decided to create mini-seasons featuring highlights from the canons of […]
A fairly straightforward thriller adapted from the 1967 film of the same name by Frederick Knott, Jeffrey Hatcher’s Wait Until Dark is a competent and enjoyable if not altogether memorable piece to round out the season. A good genre companion to Murder on the Lake and contrast to the bright zaniness of Tons of […]
The performance I attended of The Shaw Festival’s Blues for an Alabama Sky was one of those nights at the theatre that makes theatre-going endlessly exciting but also somewhat hard to review. With presumably very little notice, understudy Kiera Sangster was in for the leading role of Angel Allen (usually played by the brilliant Virgilia […]
The backbone of the Shaw Festival is and has to be the work of George Bernard Shaw. As much as success with work closer to the edges of the mandate is a boon to the company that continues to push its long stagnant boundaries, at the end of the day what this company has that […]
I don’t quite understand what happened here. This was my most anticipated production of the season- a small chamber piece from and featuring two of my favourite festival artists- but I’m fairly certain the show was pitched as an original (performers Marla McLean and Graeme Somerville are credited as “co-creators”), an intimate work crafted out […]
I wanted so badly to like this multi-disciplinary piece from the thoughtful duo of Devon Healey (writer/performer) and Nate Bitton (performer/co-director with Mitchell Cushman). The show is produced by their company Peripheral Theatre alongside unconventional space pioneers Outside the March and the National Ballet of Canada whose apprentices appear as a beautiful but confounding supporting […]