As a writing team, George F. Kaufman and Moss Hart really understood the tenor of the times. In 1936, deep in the Great Depression, they opened You Can’t Take It With You as a balm for hard times. At the heart is the seemingly eccentric Sycamore family who live by Grandpa’s motto of only doing […]
This play is a charmer. It is also poignant and sentimental, yet laugh-out-loud funny. Sometimes we need gentle humour in our lives, and Lemoine, based in Edmonton, is not afraid to write plays that could be considered retro. All the more power to him. It’s understandable why Ted Dykstra took on the role of Zachary […]
Artistic fraud of St. John’s, Newfoundland, is one of Canada’s most imaginative companies, both in staging and subject matter. Oil and Water, which is part of Factory Theatre’s Performance Spring Festival, is the latest show from the fertile minds of writer Robert Chafe and director Jillian Keiley. First, mention must be made of Shawn Kerwin’s […]
About: Four Wal-Mart employees, obsessed with celebrity, breathlessly recount minute details of Céline Dion’s life. What begins with a rapturous account of Dion’s farewell Montreal concert before taking to her bed to have her child, disintegrates into lascivious tabloid speculation. At the same time, these menial workers also savour every horrific fact about the sad […]
The Theatre Centre’s annual Free Fall Festival is a showcase of experimental works, some more finished than others. Liza Balkan’s Out the Window is close to a full-scale production, and let’s hope that will happen very soon. The potency of the play did carry through despite actors being on script. Balkan says in her notes […]
