The Lucky winner is Lynda Yearwood!
Congrats Lynda, on winning a pair of tickets to tomorrow night’s performance of who knew grannie!
This dub-poetry show will be playing until April 4th, Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm with a Sunday matinee at 2:00 pm . Tickets are $15 – $35 and can be purchased at TIX HUB.
For more information about this play just visit Factory Theatre or read the review by Megan Mooney.
by Leanne Milech
Feast your eyes on five eclectic Toronto theatre options – all of which cost $20 or less. This week, we suggest opera (for free!), improv at Toronto’s Bad Dog Theatre, radiant physical theatre, a coming-of-age tale and theatre about art (think thought-provoking rather than hoity-toity). Here are the dirty deets on our cheap theatre picks for the week of March 29, 2010:
This week win a chance to go see who knew grannie . A dub-poetry performance about the journey of four-cousins reunited at their grandmothers funeral by Obsidian and Factory Theatres. This show will be playing until April 4th every Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm with a Sunday matinee at 2:00 pm . Tickets are $15 – $35 with available discounts for seniors, previews, students, groups, and theatre artists.
Don’t miss your chance to see this show before it closes, just email us here at contests@mooneyontheatre.com quoting the subject line who knew grannie.
For more information about this play read excerpts from the press release below or visit Factory Theatre you can also visit TIX HUB to purchase tickets. Or read the full review by Megan Mooney here.
Good Luck!
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By Megan Mooney
On the Side of the Road by Theatre Junction is playing as part of Harbourfront’s worldstage, and the Free Fall festival with the Theatre Centre.
If I had to only choose one word to describe the work, I’d have to say that it’s striking.
First thing I noticed was the brightest stage and set design I’ve ever seen. The set was filled with lots of white, some glittery silver accents, and ice. The white was highlighted by bright white lighting.
Walking into the theatre the audience is met by a woman in a sparkling silver dress, sitting on the edge of the stage talking to audience members as they streamed by. There was also a man on stage working on an ice sculpture.
So, what about the show itself? Well, it felt to me like it fell somewhere between what people generally seem to think of as a play and what they generally think of as performance art. There was a narrative, but there was also a lot of stuff that moved outside of the realm of what people expect from a play, like interpretive dance.
By Megan Mooney
I generally like Second City revues. They don’t stay with me or anything, but they make me laugh and I enjoy the night, and the opportunity to have table service while going to a show always makes for a good time too. But this revue – Second City for Mayor, this one was different. I loved this one. It’s my favourite Second City revue of the ones I’ve seen.
I was tying to figure out what would make it stand out so much from the previous ones, and I think it’s a big collection of little things. When I was talking to people after the show, I struck up a conversation with a woman who also really enjoyed this revue and through some round about discussions we decided that this was a far more “theatrical” production than other Second City shows we’ve seen. I don’t mean theatrical as in bigger or louder or anything like that. Just more, well, more kind of pulled together, more complete.
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