Category: theatre-review
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By Christopher Douglas The Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s season opener, The Cut, prominently features a banana on the program cover. The half-peeled banana has had the end of it bitten off and serves as a not-so-subtle metaphor for the subject of Jordi Mand’s newest script – at least that imagery is what WJT uses to set…
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By Christopher Douglas In a second floor room without windows in downtown Winnipeg grows a tree. This tree’s deep roots remember Ovid’s ancient stories and, at the centre of a gallery in Artspace, its trunk can be located. Trees are a central image within Rafaella Marcus’ debut script, Sap, presented in this fluid staging by…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez The Iliad is an old story, one of the oldest still in circulation in fact. At a ground level, it’s the story of the Trojan War in which the Greeks fought the Trojans outside the walls of Troy. Also, as this production mentions, it’s the story of two brave warriors: Achilles the…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Shakespeare in the Ruins is starting their season off strong with As You Like It. This may very well be one of the lightest of his comedies. According to director Michelle Boulet “it’s kind of an escapist play, but oddly in that that’s where you get the huge heart and all the…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Rattle is the story of two sixties scoop survivors, Bobbie and Dan. Beyond that, it is the story of their family and the ways in which trauma never stops at only impacting one person. It’s also a love letter to the community that has been created in the North End, something talked…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez From the sanctuary of her living room at home, a young girl waits for her videographer father to come home. As she watches his footage, she dreams longingly of seeing the Arctic world and its animals he films. When he leaves again, she stows away with him to witness this wilderness for…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez This musical is based on a larger than life trip, a woman named Annie Londonderry who cycled around the globe in 1895, collecting sponsorships and giving lectures. Annie is at the newspaper to give a pitch for a regular newspaper column about her adventures. When she discovers the slide machine is out…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Four performers descend the stairs into a mysterious space full of storage crates. Some preliminary flexes with visuals cues you in to the fact that lights are going to be another actor in this show. In vibrant coloured costumes, the characters undertake a journey of discovering the mysterious space. They open one…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez In the intimacy of a woman’s living room, she (Laura Olafson) receives an all important phone call. The writer of an advice column she loves is leaving for other things and wants her to take over as “Sugar”. In spite of the fact she doesn’t get paid and has countless other obligations…
