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Continue reading →: A Christmas Carol in a delightful, unique, immersive production at Campbell HouseThomas Gough & Christopher Fowler. Costume & prop design by Chelsea Driver. Photo by Graham Isador. The Three Ships Collective and Soup Can Theatre have teamed up to present a delightful, unique, immersive production of holiday favourite A Christmas Carol—with original text by Justin Haigh, direction by Sarah Thorpe and…
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Continue reading →: Happy holidays 2018!Hey all! Holy cow, it’s that time of year again! Time to get the holiday activities into high gear, with shopping and social events taking over the calendar. This also means it’s time for the cowbell blog’s annual December hiatus. This gives me a chance for some R&R after a…
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Continue reading →: Inside the brilliant mind of the man behind the message, silenced by stroke in the mercurial, theatrical, moving The MessageR.H. Thomson. Set designed by Camellia Koo. Costumes designed by Charlotte Dean. Lighting design by Rebecca Picherack. Video design by Carla Ritchie. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Tarragon Theatre takes us into the brilliant, lighting-fast mind of professor turned internationally hailed pop star prophet Marshall McLuhan with its mercurial, theatrical…
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Continue reading →: A photo album of family, love & memento mori in the profoundly moving, nostalgic, candid Dividing Lines/Líneas DivisoriasBeatriz Pizano & Julia (projected photo). Scenography by Trevor Schwellnus, with associate lighting designer Rebecca Vandevelde. Costume design by Andjelija Djuric. Photo by Jeremy Mimnagh. “They say blood is thicker than water — I say, love is thicker than blood.” Aluna Theatre premieres Beatriz Pizano’s Dividing Lines/Líneas Divisorias, a photo…
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Continue reading →: The battle for survival & inclusion in an elite Chinese sanctuary in the provocative, darkly funny Yellow RabbitEn Lai Mah & April Leung, with Amanda Zhou in the background. Set & costume design by Jackie Chau. Lighting design by Jareth Li. Video design by Zeesy Powers. Photo by: Cesar Ghisilieri. Soulpepper presents the world premiere of Silk Bath Collective’s (SBC) provocative, darkly funny, multimedia and trilingual Yellow…
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Continue reading →: A warrior’s heroic journey in the wondrous, enchanting, multidisciplinary The Monkey QueenDiana Tso and Nicholas Eddie. Scenic design by William Yong. Costume design by Robin Fisher. Lighting design by Rebecca Picherack. Projection design by Elysha Poirier. Photo by David Hou. The Theatre Centre presents the world premiere of Red Snow Collective’s wondrous, enchanting, multidisciplinary The Monkey Queen, by Diana Tso, directed and…
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Continue reading →: Portrait of a family in messy, human shades of grey in the intimate, intense, complex What I Call HerCharlie Gould & Ellie Ellwand. Lighting design by Imogen Wilson. Photo by Dahlia Katz. In Association—which led a sold-out production of Ellie Moon’s Asking For It last season—partners with Crow’s Theatre once again, this time with the world premiere of Moon’s intimate, intense and complex What I Call Her, directed…
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Continue reading →: Outrageously fun, horrific good times in Space Opera Zero!Clockwise, from top left: Eric Woolfe, Lisa Norton & Mairi Babb. Set & costume design by Melanie McNeill, assisted by Emily Butters. Lighting design by Michael Brunet. Photo by producer Adrianna Prosser. Eldritch Theatre returns with more outrageously fun, horrific good times with Space Opera Zero, written by Eric…
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Continue reading →: Mental health takes centre stage in the mercurial, heart-wrenching, provocative adaptation Hamlet(s)Skipping Stones Theatre gives us a new, contemporary take on the Shakespeare classic brings mental health front and centre with its mercurial, heart-wrenching, provocative adaptation Hamlet(s), directed by Sean O’Brien, supplemented by additional Shakespearian text; and opening last night to a sold out house at b current Studio in Artscape…
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Continue reading →: Preview: Professional & personal responses to tragedy collide in the darkly funny, deeply human VitalsLauren Wolanski. Photo by John Wamsley. After mounting a successful workshop reading of selections of Rosamund Small’s Vitals at Paprika Festival this year, Theatre Born Between (TBB) mounts the play in its entirety in its first full-scale production, directed by TBB co-founder Bryn Kennedy and running at The Commons Theatre. Darkly…
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