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Continue reading →: Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Meet contestants Kaitlyn Riordan & Chanakya MukherjeeAaand our next intrepid contestants for First Folio supremacy in Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Jurassic BARD hail from team Shakespeare in the Ruff. Introducing Kaitlyn Riordan (aka Kaitlyn “Frickin” Riordan, or maybe that’s just me) and Chanakya Mukherjee! Contestant: Kaitlyn Riordan Team: Shakespeare in the Ruff Favourite play from the Shakespeare…
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Continue reading →: New Ideas: The chaotic metaphysics of life, love & monsters in the water in the funny, moving, poetic Week 3 programAlumnae Theatre Company continues its 30th annual New Ideas Festival (NIF) of short new works, opening the Week Three program last night. It’s the final week of the festival, running up in the Alumnae Studio. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Natalie Frijia, directed by Kay Brattan. In 1882…
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Continue reading →: Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Meet contestant James Wallis
Time to meet another word warrior in the battle for Folio supremacy at Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Jurassic BARD! Introducing James Wallis from team Shakespeare BASH’d! Contestant: James Wallis Team: Shakespeare BASH’d Favourite play from the Shakespeare canon: Romeo and Juliet Favourite character from the canon that you’ve played so far: Richard III…
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Continue reading →: Revolution, reversal, revulsion: Soulpepper’s disturbingly hilarious, brutally satirical, timely Animal FarmRick Roberts, Sarah Wilson & Miriam Fernandes. Set and costume design by Ken MacKenzie. Lighting design by André du Toit. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann. Soulpepper brings George Orwell’s chilling and bizarre cautionary tale of revolution, politics and corporate greed to life with its world premiere of Anthony MacMahon’s stage…
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Continue reading →: Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Meet contestant Donna the puppet (aka Erin Eldershaw)
Time to meet another contestant for First Folio supremacy at Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Jurassic BARD. Introducing Donna the puppet and her human pal Erin Eldershaw from team Shakey-Shake and Friends Theatre Company! Contestant: Donna the puppet (aka Erin Eldershaw) Team: Shakey-Shake and Friends Theatre Company Favourite play from the Shakespeare canon: Oh! But there…
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Continue reading →: Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Meet contestants Breanna Maloney & Tristian Claxton
Meet two more Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Jurassic BARD contestants today: Introducing Breanna Maloney and Tristan Claxton from team Skipping Stones Theatre. Contestant: Breanna Maloney Team: Skipping Stones Theatre Favourite play from the Shakespeare canon: King Lear Favourite character from the canon that you’ve played so far: Juliet Dream role…
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Continue reading →: New Ideas: Alternate perceptions, unexplained events & magical connections in the haunting, hilarious, heartfelt Week 2 program
Alumnae Theatre Company opened its 30th annual New Ideas Festival (NIF) of short new works last week; the three-week festival presents a different program of plays each week, plus staged readings on Saturdays at noon. I caught the Week Two program up in the Studio last night. Sweet Mama and…
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Continue reading →: Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Meet contestant Kate McArthur
Spur of the Moment Shakespeare Collective is back with its 7th annual battle for First Folio supremacy with Shakesbeers Showdown 2018: Jurassic BARD on April 27 at the 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education. Team contestants will face off in cold reads from the notoriously hard…
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Continue reading →: Sacrifices, stories & souls in Soulpepper’s startling, lyrical, theatrical IdomeneusMichelle Monteith, Stuart Hughes and Jakob Ehman. Set, video and lighting design by Lorenzo Savoini. Costume design by Gillian Gallow. Photo by Cylla von Tiedeman. Soulpepper Theatre takes us on a turbulent, soul-wrenching homecoming journey in its production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Idomeneus, translated by David Tushingham, and directed by Alan…
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