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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 about significantly less…
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Disclaimer: this is not a review. This is a new project. Proceed accordingly. Years and years ago, I was at the outdoor market at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival when a saw a Book. A Book I had been looking for most of my life and didn’t know it. It was big, and it was juicy…
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It’s almost June and the main seasons of most theatre companies have been put to rest. Shakespeare in the Ruins is amping up to start, and you are beginning to hear the whispers of Fringe festival in the air. It’s a liminal time, where some work has had a chance to flourish but now lives…
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Rubaboo, as it is explained to us on stage, is the Michif word for stew – specifically the everything you have in your fridge and-or-pantry kind of stew. It is an appropriate name for this creation, described as a Métis cabaret, a performance experience which is not entirely a traditional theatrical play. You have music,…
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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 herself. Told through…
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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 of commission, she…
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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 majority of people…
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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 box and then…
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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 to deliver on,…
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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 of Henry VIII,…
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