With some classics well under way, and a slough of new shows opening this week, there is something for everyone hungry for live theatre in Toronto. Our managing editor Wayne is here to choose his most anticipated shows are highlighted (in red). Check them out below the cut:
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Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s play Cake, now playing in Toronto, studies the human conditionCake is an interesting study of the human condition as it relates to money, power and manipulation.
In the first few moments of Cake, we see Femi (Yolanda Bonnell) come forward into the light. She has a solemn energy and dark, depressing eyes that stir up my own sadness the second she looks my way. Out comes Mabo (Tsholo Khalema), who’s quiet focus is garnished with an endearing sort of twinkle in his look.
The two engage in a sort of replay of what I gather is a traumatic memory of an earthquake. Holding their stomachs in, they’re in pain… I’m not so sure what’s going on yet and twenty minutes later… I’m still not completely sure…
Continue reading Review: Cake (New Harlem Productions/Theatre Passe Muraille)
Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew debuts his new play A&R Angels at Toronto’s Crow’s TheatreIf I were giving a prize for the funniest, darkest opening scene in a play I’ve seen this year it would go to Crow’s Theatre production of A&R Angels, playing at Streetcar Crowsnest.
A man (Gordon S. Miller who is terrific as two “suiciders”) walks into a room, drinking a Slurpee. He finishes the drink, puts the cup on a table, climbs on a chair, and slips a noose around his neck. Enter the angels! Continue reading Review: A&R Angels (Crow’s Theatre)
Toronto playwright Diane Flacks examines the intersection of women and religion in her play UnholyI think most people have had that one dinner where they’re told: whatever you do, don’t mention religion. Nightwood Theatre’s Unholy playing at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is that dinner—except imagine that dinner is televised and there are no consequences for letting your opinions fly.
It’s exactly as intense, exciting, and hilarious as it sounds.
Alexander Showcase Theatre presents George Bernard Shaw’s classic play Pygmalion in TorontoAlexander Showcase Theatre is currently staging George Bernard Shaw’s classic Pygmalion at Alumnae Theatre. It’s tale about a phonetics academic who bets that he can teach a low class girl to speak such that she can pass for a duchess at a royal garden party. Continue reading Review: Pygmalion (Alexander Showcase Theatre)