You walk into the theatre. Plastic covers the walls on the stage. At first you don’t notice, but after a while you start see something projected there. A ribcage? “This isn’t your regular programing,” actor Cliff Cardinal tells us, as he walks on stage with a plastic bag duct taped over his head. “It takes […]
“What a strange thing it is, that whereas other gods have poems and hymns made in their honour, the great and glorious god, Love, has no such encomiast among all the poets who are so many… we who are assembled cannot do better than honour the god Love” These are the words of Phaedrus, in […]
Virtual Stage’s Broken Sex Doll, which opened this past Friday with Magnectic North in Halifax, was a little bit like a bad one-night stand: awkward, no heart, and way too long. Sure, the one-night stand sometimes looks good. They can sometimes even dance and sing real good. But when you get right down to the […]
Nothing epitomizes the “geek” culture like comic books. In recent years, Hollywood has revitalized the big screen comic book hero to capitalize on the rise of “geek chic” in America. Don’t believe me? During the last ten years, four of the highest grossing domestic movies have been based on comic books. I have a confession: […]
“What I love about dogs,” Denise Clarke mummers as she begins imitating a dog’s slow building tail-wag, “is that they can’t hide their emotions.” Despite the audience’s noticeable lack of tails, we all had trouble hiding our gleeful experience of wag, which opened this past Thursday as part of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in […]
Relationships are tough. Relationships between self-involved, overly-dramatic young people who are on the brink of presumably life-changing success are downright treacherous. That does not mean they are not worth plunging into heart first. Most fleeting relationships are soon forgotten, minor mountains to be conquered and left behind, but there are some romances that leave an […]
Cineastas I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this Spanish-language exploration of the lives of filmmakers but what I found was a profoundly moving and wonderfully inventive piece of ensemble theatre. The cast was extraordinary in their versatility and emotional depth (Javier Lorenzo in particular pulled at my heartstrings in multiple roles) while the […]
I just spent an hour and a half with Shakespeare Bash’d Artistic Director James Wallis and his wife/collaborator Julia Nish-Lapidus. The conversation sprawled- I asked them what fans of their previous Fringe hits The Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing could expect from their upcoming Love’s Labour’s Lost; they sung the praises […]