Category: theatre-review
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Marry Henry VIII when you’re madly in love with someone else and your country is in absolute political and religious turmoil and the only heir is a sickly boy? What could possibly go wrong? Or right? The Last Wife tells the highly fictionalized story of Katherine Parr, the as mentioned last wife…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez A note for anglophones: there are subtitles available for free on tablets you can request at the door. In other words, there is no excuse for blaming language for not going to see this show. French language theatre is doing their best to make their work accessible across language boundaries. It’s up…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez This is a really hard show to describe. Utterly unique, gloriously multimedia, characters Oogie and Boogie engage in play using white boards, music, well honed physical theatre, drawing, puppetry, animation and good old fashioned audience participation. There is a loose storyline about rescuing a turtle, but if you get hung up on…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez How do you measure cultural authenticity? More importantly, who gets to make those judgement calls and how should they go about it? These are some of the deep, complex, contradictory questions that drive this piece, and drive it do they ever. The story uses the case of the many, many frauds of…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez In this production, actor Tom Rooney switches between a staggering number of parts to tell a story of how Rogers communications is actually worse than you could have imagined. Yes, even after being switched between operators for forty five minutes because you want to make a miniscule change to your cell phone…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez The tagline of this show could almost be “it should have been so simple”. Parents Carrie and Paul just want to take care of their two kids, one of whom, Daniel, happens to have cerebral palsy. Beyond that they work, pick up groceries and squabble. And yet in some achingly painfully realistic…
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De Daniela Smith-Fernandez Le multiculturalisme canadien est devenu l’un des défis les plus importants de notre époque. Contrairement à certains , on a une population qui incarne une diversité d’histoires et de perspectives sur la question essentielle : « au Canada, ça veut dire quoi ? Appartenir authentiquement dans ta pluralité ? C’est le point…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Meet an utterly charming and also unlikely duo, Tad (Hera Nalam)and Birdy (Samuel Benson), and their wonderful friendship. As you can probably guess, Tad is a tadpole and birdy is, well, you can figure it out. We were lucky enough to catch the world premiere at Manitoba Theatre for Young People. This…
