Deceitful Above All Things was an unexpected treat. Set in Quebec in 1667, it explores the experience of some French settlers as they try to survive a first winter in the harsh environment of New France. It sounds like the sort of thing a proper Canadian should see. Awful reasoning, but it worked out in my favour this SummerWorks! Continue reading Deceitful Above All Things (For The Brave Productions) 2015 SummerWorks Review
Better Angels: A Parable, playing as part of this year’s SummerWorks Festival, is a play that will make you angry — righteously angry. You will spend the hour fuming, shifting in your seat (and not only because you’re in the backspace at the Passe Muraille), wishing comeuppance and seeking vindication. For all these reasons, Better Angels is worth watching,
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This is Where We Live is nothing short of two dynamic performances telling one unique love story. Playing at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace, Discord and Din Theatre’s presentation at SummerWorks 2015 shows what talented performers can do with a great script in a sparse space.
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You should go see The Living. In a sentence, The Living, playing in Toronto as part of the SummerWorks Festival, is about the process of reconciliation after genocide. How do you live beside someone who murdered your family? How do you erase years of anger and hatred?
“You probably won’t be able to laugh in this play,” the audience member beside me wisely said to her companion. The Living is complicated, brutal, raw, frustrating, satisfying, and definitely a play worth seeing.
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Exploring the notions of relationships and what it means to meaningfully connect with another soul, Are You Still Coming Tonight? made its SummerWorks Festival debut Saturday afternoon.
Conceptually, I found the premise intriguing: to explore “the idea of audiences not seeing dancers as relatable but rather as highly skilled technicians who can do things with their bodies that most people can’t”.
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