Electric performance anchors this revival of Vitals, now on stage in Toronto
Vitals, by Outside the March playwright-in-residence Rosamund Small, has received several productions and many accolades since its debut, including the 2014 Dora Awards for Outstanding Production and New Play (Independent Theatre category). New theatre company Theatre Born Between devotes its premiere production to the one-woman show, presented in stripped-down form at The Commons Theatre. Thanks to a strong performer and some unique staging elements, the company proves that this urgent script doesn’t need an elaborate production to remain vital.
Shapeshifters, spirits and demons take to the Toronto stage in The Monkey Queen
The Monkey Queen (Red Snow Collective)—on at The Theatre Centre—is a quietly subversive play that adds childlike wonder and a female perspective to Wu Cheng’En’s fable-filled novel Journey to the West, an adventurous quest for knowledge featuring monsters, demons, and spirits galore.
This site-specific one-hander, on stage in Toronto, is smart and funny but didn’t all add up
Katherine is Not a Communist is a new play written by Katherine Doering and Curtis te Brinke and produced by Epigraph Theatre. The one-woman show, featuring Doering as the title character, packs a lot into 90 minutes. There’s American history, classic Hollywood movies, and witchcraft. It’s a wild ride, but for me, the show didn’t hang together. I thought the different bits were interesting, but as a whole, the show left me confused. Continue reading Review: Katherine Is Not A Communist (Epigraph Theatre)→
Canadian Stage opens 18/19 season in Toronto with introspective, apocalyptic dance
Internationally celebrated choreographer Hofesh Shechter returns to Toronto with a smoke-filled stage and a chaotic world in freefall in Grand Finale at the Bluma Appel Theatre. Grand Finale does not mark his final work, but presents a dreary yet beautiful apocalyptic world.
In this world, dancers are not distressed in a typical end-of-the-world fashion; rather they blankly move through a chaotic realm. Their movements are loose-limbed as they shuffle and shudder around the stage with supple wrists and upturned chests. They hold their mouths open in emotionless, silent screams, or fall lifeless to the ground to be carried, manipulated and dragged around.
Live theatre shows in Toronto with ticket prices of $25 or less, playing the week of November 12th, 2018. All of these shows are perfect for the budget-conscious theatre enthusiast! Let MoT help you gain access to Toronto’s theatre scene without making you break the bank!
Shows that Caught Our Eye in Toronto for the Week of November 12th, 2018
As always MoT is here with fabulous suggestions for the theatre-goer in you! The Toronto theatre scene is in full swing, so check out our top picks inred, and let us help you plan your next theatre adventure!
Canadian Rep Theatre presents Helen’s Necklace in Toronto that feels hazy and unanchored
Canadian Rep Theatre has chosen to produce Carole Fréchette’s Helen’s Necklace in a unique way. Typically performed by one actress as Helen and one male portraying the other characters, director Ken Gass casts three female actors in the two-hander.
The eponymous character narrates her journey through an unnamed country after she loses her “lighter-than-air” pearl necklace. The necklace is described as using invisible thread, making the pearls appear as if just scattered around Helen’s clavicle – it is an elusive and ethereal ornament. And this production follows the necklace’s lead.
Herstory takes on classic mythology in this Canadian-penned theatre epic onstage in Toronto
Mythology gets modern in The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood’s alternate take on Homer’s Odyssey epic. Based on the 2005 novella of the same name, this pitch-black comic tragedy at Hart House theatre examines the life of Penelope, famed for holding court at Ithaca in her husband Odysseus’ twenty-year absence. In this version of events, she is much more than a dutifully waiting good wife.
Scorch dazzles on the Toronto stage with questions about gender and justice
Electric performance anchors this revival of Vitals, now on stage in Toronto
Shapeshifters, spirits and demons take to the Toronto stage in The Monkey Queen
Middletown asks existential questions of the human condition, now on the Toronto stage
This site-specific one-hander, on stage in Toronto, is smart and funny but didn’t all add up
Canadian Stage opens 18/19 season in Toronto with introspective, apocalyptic dance
Canadian Rep Theatre presents Helen’s Necklace in Toronto that feels hazy and unanchored
Herstory takes on classic mythology in this Canadian-penned theatre epic onstage in Toronto