Curtains Up Winnipeg
Bilingual reviews of Winnipeg theatre of all stripes
recent posts
- Holland – (Tom Hendry Warehouse Theatre in partnership with Theatre Projects Manitoba)
- Miss Carcass Caresse: Making Art through Sacred Rage (Kiyanaan Indigenous Theatre Festival)
- Émission d’Envol: Critique de « Tad and Birdy @MTYP
- Ô Canada, té qui toi ? @Théâtre Cercle Molière
- Tad and Birdy – Manitoba Theatre for Young People
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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 first scenes, the…
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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 recipient has created…
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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 de départ de…
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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 is an example…
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Photo credit: Dahlia Katz The show opens with a couple surrounded by their stuff, a seemingly random assortment of boxes and objects of varying provenance. Comedy duo Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus are visually and metaphorically overwhelmed by possessions. The storytelling is anchored in these physical objects, alternating between improvised intervals and scripted scenes from…
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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. On a fait…
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Murder on the Orient Express was originally a detective novel by Agatha Christie; it isn’t so much a murder mystery as one of the classics that defined the genre. There is a reason why it has been turned into multiple movies over the years. It gives you our favourite tropes of the 1930’s detective story:…
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*****Cet été que chante is a play performed in French at Théâtre Cercle Molière. Anglophones who want to see it can make use of the subtitling tablets available for free. This review is in English to persuade anglophones that this is worth doing. French theatre is meeting you half way – it’s up to you…
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A sequined dame hitting on someone in the crowd with terrible puns. A panto pony dressed as a goose. Coming across a new health supplements – sorry, beans – salesman on a wheelchair ramp that also brings the action to the crowd. Yelling and booing and doing call backs. These are what made my first…
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