Lakeboat, playing at the Theatre Machine in Toronto, doesn’t catch many waves
Outfitted to look like the innards of a shipping vessel, the Theatre Machine is playing host to a cast of real guys’ guys in Unit 102 Theatre Company’s production of David Mamet’s Lakeboat.
One of Mamet’s earliest works, Lakeboat follows the relationships and camaraderie of a group of men employed on a steel freighter over the course of a summer. Through the eyes of the newest and youngest shipmate, Dale, we get to meet and learn about the other men on board, from their life philosophies to how they prefer their liquor.
Daniel Stolfi’s Finding Funny is leaving Toronto audiences in stitches
You and Me Entertainment‘s one-man show, Finding Funny, is about a man (played by Daniel Stolfi) who feels he’s lost his comedic mojo and embarks on a journey to find it. It definitely found my funny bone tonight at Bad Dog Theatre. I’d wager a bet that if I said that in front of Stolfi, he’d answer “that’s what she said!”
You’ve probably already seen The Trouble with Mr. Adams, most likely as a movie-of-the-week: middle-aged teacher develops a crush on a student, disaster ensues.
There’s a tendency to treat this subject with kid gloves and ambiguities, emphasizing grey areas and he-said-he-said. Here, playwright Gord Rand and director Lisa Peterson go for the jugular, choosing to fully engage with the sleaze and messiness of this situation. It’s a bold decision, and a commendable one: lots of people squirmed in their seats at opening night.
Butcher is a “fascinating” dive into unanswerable questions, now on stage in Toronto
Must revenge be a never-ending cycle? Are revenge and justice mutually exclusive, or are they one and the same? What do you do to raise your voice in a world that is bored with suffering? The Theatre Centre, in a co-production with Why Not? Theatre and Butcher’s Block Collective, presents Nicholas Billon’s explosive play Butcher, a thrilling, taut and harrowing 80 minutes of theatre that raises these uneasy, unanswerable questions.
