Five For Twenty (or Less)
Looking for some cheap live theatre shows in Toronto this week? Here’s five shows for $20 or less per ticket – and as a bonus we’ve thrown in a reading of new play about Emily Carr and Lucy Maud Montgomery. You’ll love our picks this week; we’ve got everything from culinary clowns to postmodern Faust.
Continue reading Cheap Theatre in Toronto for the Week of March 26, 2012
I’m not quite sure what to say about The Nun’s Vacation. I still have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand I thought it was smart and funny in parts with some great acting, but on the other I felt like I was being hit on the head with the same concept over and over again.
The show is basically about a Catholic nun who is conflicted about her faith and sexuality as she doesn’t know how it all fits into her religion and she’s afraid of an unforgiving, highly judgmental God. She had an ongoing affair with another nun at her convent but has just been dumped, which has shaken her. She is lost and lonely with no one to turn to, so she decides to ‘take a vacation’ and lands up at her gay ex-priest, ex-boyfriend’s house. Continue reading Review: The Nun’s Vacation (Doghouse Riley Productions)
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of March 26, 2012: ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Tiffany, one of our Editors, wish she lived in a time warp so she could check them all out.
Continue reading Eye-Catching Toronto Theatre for the Week of March 26, 2012
Liza Balkan watched a man die during an altercation with Toronto police in August 2000. His name was Otto Vass. At The Theatre Centre, she retells that six minute confrontation and the years that followed. After seeing her groundbreaking work Out The Window, I feel like I was a witness as well.
Balkan has spent the last dozen years creating a living work of art she calls “part play and part public forum”. I would call it more than a play and less than a play. She introduces Out The Window as only a great educator can, inviting us into a new world, making us curious and involved. In that way it is more than a play.
Continue reading Review: Out The Window (The Theatre Centre and The Window Collective)
Varenka, Varenka! just opened at The Citadel, the new space for the Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie dance troupe. I knew the address, 304 Parliament street, would be close to my house but I was surprised when I Google-mapped it and found that it was a building I had always known as a Salvation Army soup kitchen. The transformation to a dance theatre is impressive, but the historic use of the space is somewhat fitting to an interpretation of Dosteovsky’s first novel Poor Folk, an epistolary tale of two isolated and impoverished individuals who form a relationship through letters.
Continue reading Review: Varenka, Varenka! (Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie)