Meet the powerful Gwen Powers at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Murraile
Gwen Powers is an intriguing, highly entertaining and Toronto-centric take on the age old problem of a “bizarre love triangle”. Gwen Powers, the character, is like a sunburn. One usually has great fun getting the burn, but the consequences are very painful. Theatre Passe Murraile Backspace isn’t a beach, but it is where Gwen burns two men.
The play is original, fresh, entertaining, fast paced and completely enjoyable. Gwen Powers will make you think, too. Don’t worry. There won’t be a test on this.
Toronto’s 12th Annual Paprika Festival for emerging young and local theatre artists
The Paprika Festival, Toronto’s only theatre festival celebrating the work of young and emerging artists, returns to the Tarragon Theatre Extra Space March 27th to April 6th, 2013 with an ambitious programming line-up.
Celebrating its twelfth birthday, the Paprika Festival will showcase work by some of Canada’s most exciting young artists under the age of twenty-one. This year’s Festival features eleven full productions and six staged readings. All productions are original work created by over one hundred young artists selected from every corner of the Greater Toronto Area, and even as far afield as Ottawa.
Spring is supposed to be here, and while it seems like it’s gotten a little stuck trying to make it through customs, at least there’s some interesting theatre to keep our minds off the fact that it’s not beach weather yet.
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of March 25th, 2013. ** Shows marked with the double asterisks and in red are the ones that make Wayne, our Managing Editor, wish he could exist in multiple parallel universes so he could check them all out.
