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There’s nothing better than than a little change in pace for the holiday season. Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre presents a night of dance in WinterSong at the Fleck Dance Theatre.
It’s a lovely evening that offers up something a little different for those who are tired of the same old December songs.
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Toronto’s Echo Productions presents a grown-up Peanuts gang in the play Dog Sees GodThe Peanuts gang has grown up in Echo Production’s Dog Sees God Confessions of a Teenaged Blockhead playing at the John Candy Box Theatre. This dark dramedy/parody, playwright Bert V. Royal presents the changes from childhood to adolescence wrought by life happening.
As a play, it’s a paint by the numbers coming out piece, but in the hands of director Victoria Fuller and an amazing cast, it manages to overcome any shortcomings.
Eva Barrie play, on stage in Toronto, is a fascinating character studyActions born out of dire situations can come back to haunt us. In Yell Rebel Theatre’s Agency, playing at the Theatre Centre Incubator Space until November 20th, the consequences of past actions becomes a living, breathing thing.
A disturbing script delves into questions of self, histories, and the point at which a person can, or can’t, let go.
Mortar and Pestle’s King Lear stays on script, but could be gutsierWhere, exactly, does a tragedy start? Is it the moment a story is conceived? Or is it the moments when everything can be easily undone by simple communication?
Mortar and Pestle Production’s King Lear playing at the Gerrard Arts Space is a show that presents the inevitable tragedy with characters who seem to expect the events.
When everyone feels ahead of the plot, however, the story becomes less a tragedy and more a question of purpose.
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