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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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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 folks at the…
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Mon premier émission sur la radio Envol avec Caroline Touchette. À propos d’Outside Joke improv troupe à Prairie Theatre Exchange. #improv #radioenvol #outsidejoke #prairietheatreexchange
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So what is this site and why did I decided it needed to exist? Well, this is a site to talk about theatre. All kinds of theatre. Performances of many stripes. All the small and ridiculous, grandiose and elaborate that happens in the middle of the continent. Quite simply, a blog for theatre lovers by…
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