Category: Theatre topics
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez We’ve all been there: a friend or a loved one has invited you to a show that they are obsessed with and you… don’t get it. Maybe the humour is off. It’s incredibly repetitive. The characters don’t speak to you. Yet somehow everyone in the audience but you is losing their minds…
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By Christopher Douglas When I see announcements for performances that walk around a park or a warehouse, I jump at the opportunity. I love theatre that asks me to do more than merely sit in my comfortable seat in the dark and watch the action unfold. Sometimes that means becoming a participant in the work:…
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By Daphne Finlayson Every October, dozens of artists, directors, and curators of new theatre from around the continent gather in New York City for the Festival of New Musicals. A colleague of mine had the chance to attend last year’s festival, marveling at how packed it was. “Everyone wanted to be a part of the…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez The guy in the painting next to this text is “Molière”. If you know, you know. As mentioned before, I am reading through the Bedford Introduction to Drama, a text containing plays and articles designed for first year students. In the introduction they did an overview of the important playwrights and movements…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Don Diego de la Luna sat next to me yesterday as I read the Bedford Introduction to Drama. I haven’t gotten to the fun part yet – we’re still coughing through the introduction in which the author defines terms and explains concepts of performance. Diego let me give him scritches as I…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Firsts are important: first words, first names, first steps. They matter, not so much in and of themselves, but because they mark an initiation. They bring with them the traces of what is to come: a life full of conversations, years of identity, paths walked into strange and unimaginable places. All firsts…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Opera. If you ask most people, they will describe it making reference to grand spectacles and big voices. Those in the know might hum a few bars of Ride of the Valkyries or Carmen’s habanera solo, a testament to how deep the operatic tradition is integrated into our culture. If the vast…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Erica Wilson is not prepared to live in anyone”s artistic pigeon hole. The best part? In her February 6 show “Miss Carcass Caresse: Soft Waters”, at Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival she gets to define the terms in which she creates as, well, an artist. This year’s national indigenous arts development and showcase…
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De Katrine Deniset Il y a sept ans, mon amie Marie-Ève Fontaine faisait une résidence d’artiste dans l’ancienne maison d’été de Gabrielle Roy, à Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, au bord du fleuve Saint-Laurent. J’habitais alors à Québec et elle a accepté que je m’immisce quelques jours dans son espace créatif, qui a été celui de notre chère Gabrielle.…
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By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Today was media call for Sick and Twisted theatre’s Merry Crip-Mas Panto at the WECC. The amazing thing about doing theatre criticism is that you can actually go to an event like this and ask questions – because that is what you are supposed to do. With that in mind, the lovely…
