When Soulpepper gets something right, it’s usually very right. The revival of Parfumerie is a case in point. The play contains references to Christmas, so it’s perfect for the season. The delightful story and characters can be revisited again and again. Written by Hungarian master Miklos Laszlo in 1937, the story has been made into […]
The make love/not war message of the 1967 musical Hair seems more potent than ever, given the “occupy” movement of today. The flower children tell us through song, what they are rebelling against/and or/what they are fighting for. There is a shard of a story – tribe member Claude gets drafted and because he doesn’t […]
The Wizard of Oz is a Ross Petty pantomime, which, in the time honoured British tradition, totally skewers the norm. Lorna Wright and Nicholas Hune-Brown have adapted L. Frank Baum’s famous novel to ensure that the little kiddies will be entertained by all the crazy goings on, but have included enough adult references and double […]
Forget tawdry lap dance and vulgar pole dance. Le burlesque nouveau puts class back into an art form that has fallen into serious disrepute. Les Coquettes Cabaret Burlesque’s latest show Gala! is a case in point. Modern day striptease is dance theatre that is naughty but nice. The emphasis is on the “tease”, and nothing […]
Tara Beagan’s play Jesus Chrysler focuses on the tortured relationship between two women who worked for social justice during the Great Depression – the iconic Canadian poet Dorothy Livesay, and her erstwhile lover, Eugenia Watts, called Jim by her friends. Both would marry men in their future, but Beagan’s play is set around the mid-1930s […]
