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 […]
This production has had ample time to mature. It marks director Christopher Alden’s second revival of Rigoletto for the COC (2011, 2018) and the original staging dates back to the Lyric Opera of Chicago (2000). Yet there’s little evidence it has evolved in any major way. It makes no effort to engage with the sociopolitical […]
For even the most dedicated of Shakespeare audiences, Troilus & Cressida is likely the great unknown. A behemoth 3+ hour text with a sprawling cast of characters and an epic, messy story that is literally the stuff of legends- there are lots of reasons why this is one of the canon’s least performed works. Lack […]
Toronto is lucky to have Barrie-based Talk is Free Theatre producing work in the city and taking on ambitious projects like Sondheim’s Company. An amorphous narrative where lots is said and basically nothing happens, Company is a swirl of barely defined characters and extremely sophisticated ideas wrapped in some of the legendary composer’s most irresistible […]
While slow to start, Make Banana Cry is an effective and uncomfortable use and showcase of the objectification, capitalist appropriation, and fetishization of what it means to be Asian. It’s not your typical fashion show. As you enter the space, you are encouraged to explore from your seat. To take in every detail of […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m picky when it comes to holiday traditions- the market is too crowded, turkey is dry, and I really think George Bailey needs to learn to control his temper. But I very quickly attached to the tradition of the Shaw Festival’s Christmas Carol + festive musical two-show day. Throw in a stroll down Niagara-on-the-Lake’s picturesque […]