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This is not a review of The Wolves, though if I were writing such a review, I’d urge you all to snap up the last few remaining tickets for the production of Sarah DeLappe’s play, directed by Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, co-produced by the Howland Company and Crow’s, and still on until this […]
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What is the Factory Theatre up to now?
It seems that for their season opener, Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia’s The Art of Building a Bunker, the Factory will not invite critics until five days after the show opens on October 16. The Globe and Mail’s Kelly Nestruck tweeted in exasperation:
I think […]
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First things first: Red One Theatre’s production of Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie, directed by David Ferry, is pretty great. It’s gritty, intense theatre, unafraid and raw, and uncommonly willing to take risks. I don’t recall seeing a show in Toronto before quite so happy to just let its figures exist — let them move […]
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This afternoon, I sat through an hour-long, occasionally impassioned, mostly entertaining, at points gallingly historically inaccurate debate at SummerWorks on the question of whether funding for the arts should continue. Moderated by PraxisTheatre’s Michael Wheeler, the two sides of the argument were represented by Canadian journalist and columnist Andrew Coyne and theatre maker Nadia Ross […]
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About a month ago, Jordan Tannahill posted what he called an “anti-canon of essential Canadian theatre and performance” in list form as a note on Facebook; a few weeks later, a modified version appeared as blog post on praxistheatre.com; and yesterday, Sarah Garton Stanley’s response to Tannahill’s original list was
About a year ago, prompted by the mess at the Factory Theatre, I started writing a series of blog posts about what bothered me about our city’s theatre scene. Kelly Nestruck’s article in this Saturday’s Globe and Mail about one of Toronto’s major theatre companies, Soulpepper, now has me reconsidering some of what […]
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A prologue
The title’s a misnomer. Berlin is not Germany. Things are true there that aren’t true elsewhere. It’s also a bit of a theatrical pressure cooker, so even phenomena that occur throughout Germany are likely to find a more pronounced expression there.
Chapter the first: There is no such thing […]
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Oy. It’s been a while. A stupendously busy January, a long February, ten days in bed with the plague (or else a flu I caught in the UK). Sorry, reader.
But I am back with happy news: there IS exciting classical theatre in Canada after all. I have just witnessed the most riveting performance of […]
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