We’ve all heard that age-old addage: Those who can’t do, teach (and those who can’t teach, teach gym). Below you’ll find this week’s selection of affordable performance endeavours, each featuring an element of learning. From educational discussion relating to theatre, to students producing their own works, to teachers showing off their own skills. It’s never too late to hitch a ride on the theatrical learning curve.
Thought-provoking theatre in The Seagull in Four Movements, staged at Toronto’s Winchester Kitchen and Bar
Upstart Theatre’s The Seagull in Four Movements takes place in a faded cocktail bar in present day Toronto. Like its late nineteenth-century Chekhovian reference, it’s rife with the passion of a love-pentagon – much more complex than a love-triangle – and balances everyday issues of vanity, insecurity and the pursuit of a mother’s love with modern-day vernacular. Writer/Director Meg Moran included lines like, “Sorry I was late, the College car was backed up” or “God I love Toronto!” to make the piece instantly accessible and applicable to the here and now, despite The Seagull’s antique origin.
Here is what’s going on in Toronto theatre this week. There are several great shows to catch for the week of March 18th, 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.
Scooby-Doo Live is a musical mystery at Toronto’s Sony Centre
“Scooby Doo Live!“, I told my son’s teacher, when she asked what show we were leaving early to see “At the Sony Centre.” She cocked her head quizically to the side and asked “How…do they fill up a show with that?” I promised to let her know.
