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  • (Book review) Against the Night by Evelyne de la Chenelière

    By Daniela Smith-Fernandez In the dark of night, perspectives are different. This is a key theme, not only of this book but of many works of fiction. Darkness and night are understood to stand in for the chaotic, the hidden, the place where people behave in ways that they wouldn’t were they subjected to the…

  • (News) Recruiting new writers

    As mentioned before, I can no longer review local theatre. However, I want to maintain the momentum of the blog by recruiting new writers. That way Curtains Up and continue to cover local theatre and I can continue to build a culture of critique based on conversation and engagement with the art form. This is…

  • (Review) As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Ruins)

    By Daniela Smith-Fernandez Shakespeare in the Ruins is starting their season off strong with As You Like It. This may very well be one of the lightest of his comedies. According to director Michelle Boulet “it’s kind of an escapist play, but oddly in that that’s where you get the huge heart and all the…

  • (Review) Doodle POP (Manitoba Theatre for Young People)

    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…

  • (Review) The Undeniable Accusations of Red Cadmium Light (Prairie Theatre Exchange)

    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…

  • (Review) Rogers vs Rogers (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre)

    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…

  • (Review) Tad and Birdy – Manitoba Theatre for Young People

    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…

  • (Review) Cet été qui chantait – Théâtre Cercle Molière

    By Daniela Smith-Fernandez *****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…

  • (Review) Sick + Twisted’s Merry Crip-mas Panto

    By Daniela Smith-Fernandez 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…

  • (Company Profile) A Healthy Way of Making Twisted Art

    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…