Theatre
Review: Les Pieds des anges
A young woman who has chosen the feet of angels in Renaissance painting as the subject of her thesis splits into two personalities in Evelyne de la Chenelière’s latest play, Les Pieds des anges. One half...
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Wonderful cast, clever exchanges highlight Griffiths’s take on the Victorian era
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Extreme art theatre honours Refus Global
Claude Gauvreau’s La Charge de l’orignal épormyable has never had much of a profile outside Quebec.
Review: Bye Bye Baby
The unique trajectory of Bye Bye Baby, Elyse Gasco’s deeply probing work about adoption, continues with a more cohesive, refined and satisfying production.
Segal unveils new season
Bryna Wasserman, artistic director of the Segal Centre for the Performance Arts, announced an apple-polishing 2009-2010 subscription season that emphasizes the importance of teachers, mentors - and imaginary friends who look like Easter bunnies.
Review: Le Code Noir
The biography of 18th-composer Joseph Boulogne – le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), also known as Le Mozart Noir – is nothing short of amazing. This son of a slave and a French nobleman of Dutch descent accomplished so much in the fields of music, sports and the military during his life, in spite of many restrictions (including the notorious Code Noir, which institutionalized racism in the French empire), that every detail of his life inspires curiosity. How did he do it?
Linda Griffiths pays a visit to her hometown
Anyone old enough to remember Maggie and Pierre (1980) will be excited to hear that another play by Linda Griffiths, Age of Arousal, is about to make its Montreal debut at Centaur Theatre. Only this time, the multi-talented Griffiths won’t be on stage simultaneously playing a prime minister, his restless wife and an inquiring journalist. She’ll just be an observer paying a visit to her hometown.
Review: Fine performances, but Woyzeck is too long
Woyzeck isn't so much a play as a suggestion of one, written by a tormented young medical student who died of typhus at the age of 23.
Girls talk about rape
Youtheatre is dedicated to the production of issue-oriented works by Canadian playwrights
Review: Bittersweet puppet play focuses on child labour
An estimated 250 million children worldwide can be defined as child labourers. The work can vary drastically, from a 17-year-old in the U.S. flipping burgers at the corner fast-food joint, to a 10-year-old who can't go to school because of long hours worked in a dingy factory to pay off inflated family debts.
Review: Tryst
So many plot twists, such a small play. Or perhaps British playwright Karoline Leach’s Tryst, which just opened at the Segal Centre, isn’t so small after all – even though it requires just two actors, a minimal set and about two hours running time.
Sherazade an intoxicating mega-musical
Sherazade: les mille et une nuits, the musical, is a sensual, dazzling feel-good show.
Composer, marksman, swimmer, dancer
Growing up in Halifax, playwright George Boyd became acquainted with the music of Joseph Boulogne, also known as Le Chevalier St. George, thanks to CBC Radio. One of the French composer’s concertos was used as a theme song for an afternoon program. When he asked his mother who wrote the music, she replied, Mozart.
Compelling Le Déni delves into a wronged family
Childhood memories can be comforting, troubling or, in some cases, invented.
Sherazade and Starmania
With new mega-musicals Sherazade and Starmania about to open, we take a look at factors that contribute to the success of local productions – which often ignore most of Broadway's rules
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Review: The Assumption of Empire
Laura Mitchell, who plays the restless Sophie Wiseman, actually manages to squeeze a laugh out of the quizzical way she delivers the words “Lou Gehrig’s disease” after muttering, “Cancer, cancer, cancer...” as she skims the death notices.
Maïta finds hope amid tragedy
Maïta is a children’s play about child slavery. Not an easy subject to broach with kids, yet the Théâtre de la Vieille 17/Théâtre de Sable co-production, written by Esther Beauchemin, has been enchanting young audiences since 2000 with its moving story full of love, hope and courage.
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