Toronto’s Randolph Academy presents August Strindberg’s A Dream Play

The Randolph Academy’s production of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, currently playing at the Annex Theatre, is full of sound and fury. What does it signify? Well, very little to me personally. In preparation, I read Strindberg’s original text. I was not very fond of it and was hoping that a live experience might be more resonant.  Continue reading Review: A Dream Play (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts) →

Fly on the Wall Theatre presented Port Authority at Toronto’s Campbell House Museum

What venue could be more perfect for the staging of Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Port Authority than Toronto’s historic Campbell House Museum?  Recently mounted by Fly on the Wall Theatre, the play is a night of storytelling and reminded me of one of those rare nights when you have a heartfelt conversation with a close friend, father or grandfather. It’s difficult to not use the word “haunting” when describing this play, as it is bound to stay in my memory for some time.
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Toronto’s Videofag presents a macabre, intellectual thriller; A Man Vanishes

When a Montreal man mysteriously vanishes only to suddenly reappear two months later at Toronto’s Videofag, he claims to have no recollection of how he got there or even who he is. Tired and confused, he finds refuge with the partners and residents of Videofag, played by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis. A Man Vanishes follows the case of his disappearance as chronicled by a documentary filmmaker’s investigation into the case.

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