Examining the struggles of living in rural Nova Scotia, Bone Cage is playing at Toronto’s Hart House Theatre
I have a habit of going into see a show completely blind: by reading as little as possible about it. I enjoy finding out about the work as the actors play it. Going in to see Bone Cage at Hart House, I was unaware that Catherine Banks, the playwright, was the recipient of the 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
Bone Cage is a dark play that explores the emotional turmoil of 5 people living in rural Nova Scotia. Each character has their own story line about the harsh life of working the land and living in a tough working class Canadian village. Continue reading Review: Bone Cage (Hart House Theatre)→
Song, dance, movement, contemporary and classical, uplifting and heart wrenching. This week’s collection of cheap theatre picks is full of great tunes to bring a rhythm to your step or lyrics to your lips. You’ll be toe-tapping and singing along all the way home – once more with feeling!
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of September 23rd, 2013. ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Mike, our Editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out.
Tapestry’s Opera Briefs showcases young, contemporary talent creating new and innovative pieces that bring opera to a new generation
“Tapestry Briefs“, Tapestry‘s annual program of operatic shorts, was a wonderful showcase of young, contemporary, operatic talent. The program presents the collaborations from Tapestry’s 17th annual Composer-Librettist Laboratory. This year’s lab was comprised of four librettists (Nicholas Billon, Morris Panych, Julie Tepperman, David Yee) and four composers (Patrick Arteaga, Cecilia Livingston, Jocelyn Morlock, Chris Thornborrow). Each short scene was created by a different librettist/composer pairing. The twelve shorts were extremely diverse and spanned a wide range of human emotions and experience. Continue reading Review: Opera Briefs (Tapestry)→
Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre kicks off their current season with The Underpants – a hilarious story about feminism, gender roles and conformity
Alumnae Theatre opened its 2013/2014 season with The Underpants, a sweet frothy delight. It was written in 1910 by Carl Sternheim. It was called Die Hose and is a farce poking fun at bourgeois snobbery. This adaptation by Steve Martin was first produced in 2002.
Interesting that the play’s themes are still relevant today, feminism, gender roles, conformity vs individuality; they aren’t as controversial as they were 100 years ago but we still struggle with them.
Alumnae Theatre