Theatre Review – Soulpepper/Betrayal by Harold Pinter
A Harold Pinter classic about an extramarital affair and its insidious web of lies and deceits.
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ARCHIVES – PLAYS THAT OPENED IN JANUARY.2014
(5 Star Rating System) Canadian Stage. LONDON ROAD (4 ½ stars). Run don’t walk to see one of the most unusual shows in town that is soon to close. The serial killer of five prostitutes in Ipswich, England, had a flat on London Road. Verbatim playwright Alecky Blythe interviewed residents of the street to capture what […]
Paula’s Picks and Pans – Dec 11th 2013
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Theatre Review – Soulpepper/David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow
American playwright David Mamet is all about language and rhythm. Characters like to hear themselves talk. They go off on riffs. Just a word from someone else can trigger the verbal diarrhoea. Other people can barely get a word in edge-wise. When something akin to dialogue happens, the words are fragments of thoughts which makes […]
Theatre Review – David Storey’s Home
David Storey is problematic. There are many scholars who regard him as a great playwright, one who really understands the tenor of his times. And then there are others who find him limited. The one truism is that Storey is not easy. Home, which he wrote in 1970, is a metaphor for post-war England. His […]