Fast and funny Trudeau and Levesque takes to the stage in Toronto.
I’ve long been told that I needed to see a VideoCabaret show, and upon watching last night’s performance, I now know why they come so highly recommended. Trudeau and Levesque is a colourful, entertaining look at politics in Canada in the 70s and 80s, and worth watching whether or not you’re interested in the political scene.
Trudeau and Levesque is the second show in a series (the first being Trudeau and the FLQ, also currently running at Soulpepper) about former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau (splendidly played by Mac Fyfe). This show dramatizes the period between 1971 to 1982.
Raw Matter Project takes on new Ontario sex ed. curriculum on stage in Toronto.
This morning, I unfolded the program from the Idle Lessons workshop at lemonTree Studios last night. It’s handwritten in purple pen on looseleaf paper, contains… most of the information I need to write my review, and is folded into the sort of intricate packet that was our only reference point for “information security” back in Grade 7. The program perfectly epitomizes the workshop itself: clever, bold, frolicsome, a bit uneven, and—while not fully cooked—quite promising.
If you’ve got nostalgia for classics, new takes on old tales abound. There are also plenty of new stage productions. I’ve highlighted the shows we’d love to see this week with two asterisks ** and in red text. I hope they will strike your fancy, too. Continue reading Toronto Play Listings for the Week of May 4, 2015→
Get Around Me a solo play by Toronto’s Gillian English is necessary to experience
What do you do when you are abandoned by your team and victimized? What do you do when the organization you are part of refuses to take action? In Gillian English’s one woman show Get Around Me playing at The Comedy Bar, we are left with only one answer: stand up and be heard.
