Domesticated, by Bruce Norris is currently getting its Canadian premiere thanks to The Company Theatre in partnership with Canadian Stage at The Berkeley Street Theatre. It’s a slick, 160 minute play that zips by so smoothly that you barely notice the length. I give all parties involved huge credit for that. Continue reading Review: Domesticated (Company Theatre and Canadian Stage)
Wormwood, playing at the Tarragon Theatre, is a carefully constructed story that interweaves aspects of nationalistic pride, folklore, love story, history, and Ukrainian diaspora, the result of which is a wonderful and delicate piece of crafted theatre that is provoking and powerful — one you won’t want to miss.
Built against the backdrop of the Orange Revolution — a time of mass political upheaval in Ukraine — this story takes a closer look at a nation divided and the misplaced intentions of North American ideals.
The 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey horrified international news and led to large protests in the capital of India; the fury opened up space for women to speak their truth about sexual and physical assault, and one valuable contribution to this conversation is Yaël Farber’s play Nirbhaya, currently produced by Nightwood Theatre. It tells Pandey’s story, but also true stories from the lives of the performers. Continue reading Review: Nirbhaya (Nightwood Theatre)
Perhaps you have always thought of this landmass as being called North America, and have never heard it called Turtle Island, as is common among First Nations and Metis communities. If that’s so, perhaps you are not familiar with the always-exceptional work of Native Earth Performing Arts. And if that’s so – or even if it isn’t – then gosh oh golly are there wonders in store for you this weekend during the last weekend of Weesageechak Begins to Dance 28.
Continue reading Preview: Weesageechak Begins To Dance 28 (Native Earth Performing Arts)
In Seminar, currently onstage at the Panasonic Theatre and produced by Mirvish, four young writers have put together an enormous amount of money to hire a famous author to critique their work. What they don’t expect is that the criticism will encompass their own characters, and also reveal the weaknesses of their would-be mentor. Continue reading Review: Seminar (Mirvish)