Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews Depression is our generation’s plague. AIDS, tuberculosis, the actual (as in bubonic) plague, they’ve all cut down generations before us, but clinical depression, that’s what is attacking the great minds of right now. Millions at a time, it’s taking our thinkers, our emoters, […]
Billie Piper produces an outstanding performance as a woman whose struggle to have a child turns to desperation and obsession in Simon Stone’s smartly reinvented version of the Federico Garcia Lorca classic, Yerma. The play centres around Piper’s character ‘Her’, providing snippets of her life over a five-year period and the interactions she has […]
Be sure to check out our Full List of SummerWorks Reviews No Fun (A-) No Fun is a collaborative rock/dance piece created and choreographed by Helen Simard. The show declares itself to be intense from the outset as one of the dancers moves through the line of people gathered to see the show, handing out earplugs. […]
Ya’akobi and Leidental It starts out light, but ends on a rather depressing note. Ya’akobi, played by Daryl Green, is sick and tired of living a quaint life with his friend Leidental and so he decides to change things up. He wants to see the world and meet more people. He very quickly meets a […]
This year’s Toronto Fringe Festival was lauded as one of the best in recent memory. There were dozens of good shows and more than a couple great ones. Favourites like Wasteland, Cam Baby, A Good Death and Life After were discussed with enthusiasm and general consensus over Dark ‘n’ Stormys in the Fringe Club at […]
From the moment the audience walks into Trafalgar Studios, they know it will be a fun evening. A girl in funky clothing is dancing around the room to pop music and another is sitting and frantically looking at her computer. No one is quite sure what to expect, but the mood is set at the […]
Written and directed by Andrew Jamieson, Ravenous Theatre’s Lethal and Young is only on for a short time at the Hashtag gallery as a fundraiser for a more long-term project. The play takes place in the basement of the gallery, and there is standing room only as the audience finds themselves able to mill around […]
With a mixture of hope, tragedy, war and even a few laughs, Cargo forces audiences to tackle the subject of refugees and what happens when it hits close to home. The audience feels as though they have literally entered a cargo ship. Even the (tremendously uncomfortable) seats make everyone feel physically in the ship. As […]