The touring production of Lorena Gale’s Angélique (1995) is a class act. Originally presented by Montreal’s Black Theatre Workshop and Tableau D’Hôte, the classic play is performed with both earnestness and imagination. It has taken over two decades for this important play to make it to Toronto, but given the excellence of the production, the […]
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Modern Times Stage Company’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard is near perfection. Modern Times is one of my favourite companies in the city. I particularly love director Soheil Parsa’s take on the classics. He goes right to the heart of the matter, and you come away from a Modern Times […]
One of the delights of The Little Prince: Reimagined is that it is a low-tech production. It is quite amazing what you can create out of paper airplanes, and the clever use of flashlights. This enjoyable children’s theatre features a paper puppet show of immense imagination. Richard Lam translated and adapted the script from the […]
Before getting into the relative merits of the play, the production of Isitwendam (An Understanding) has one of the finest integrations of theatrical values I have witnessed in many a moon. The set (Hans Saefkow), lighting (Melissa Joakim), projections (Andy Moro with Joakim), and sound (Marc Meriläinen) move together with the precision of a military […]
The Woods Are Dark and Deep is one of those plays whose heart is in the right place, but one that needs work. Clearly, playwright Mladen Obradovic is passionate about his subject – the little known fact that during World War 1, Canada put 8500 immigrants into 24 internment camps, including whole families, who had […]
