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Continue reading →: Playing Big Maggie is a ‘mental and physical’ challenge
Originally posted on Toronto Irish Players: A clinical psychologist by day, Janice Hansen (Maggie Polpin) has had a keen interest in acting and performing since she was in her early teens and played the part of the Mock Turtle in a musical version of Alice in Wonderland. For most…
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Continue reading →: Fierce family tragicomedy – The Beauty Queen of Leenane @ Red Sandcastle Theatre
Took a trip to east end Toronto ‘hood Leslieville last night to see the opening of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane at Red Sandcastle Theatre. Directed by Wes Berger, this Beauty Queen features an outstanding foursome of a cast: Rosemary Doyle, Lynne Griffin (who Lost Girl fans will…
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Continue reading →: Interview with actor/writer & Red Sandcastle Theatre impressaria Rosemary Doyle
Earlier this month, I had the big wacky fun pleasure of attending Red Sandcastle Theatre’s annual holiday musical panto #DICKWHITFORMAYOR and his …Cat (you can read that blog post here), and it dawned on me that theatre owner/A.D. Rosemary Doyle would be an excellent interview subject for the blog. Actor/playwright/theatre…
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Continue reading →: A young woman’s journey of love & healing – Felicia Guy-Lynch’s Time For Healing
As in her poetry collection Scattered Thoughts: A Stream of Consciousness, Felicia Guy-Lynch offers everyday personal wisdom in her novella Time For Healing. Based on a true story and written in the first person, the book reads like part journal, part internal monologue as the reader follows a young Jamaican-Canadian…
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Continue reading →: Raised by Noir Wolves
Originally posted on TOpoet: Cabaret Noir started the new year off in fine style with dynamic sets from Brock Hessel, David Bateman & music by Cap & Kev. Kevin, at the Central, with zydeco then French Pop 60’s playlists created a great mood for the show. I’d seen Brock perform…
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Continue reading →: Ribald, rustic taste of the wrath of love in Rarely Pure Theatre’s As You Like It
From the lobby of Storefront Theatre, you can hear the haunting, lyrical and hypnotic sounds of layered FX guitar music. Inside the theatre space, the minimalist set is woodsy, sparse, cold. Branches hang from the ceiling and short sticks of trees sprout from the floor, cradled in snow drifts at…
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Continue reading →: Introducing Ralph Alfonso, Canadian Poet
Originally posted on Patrick Jenkins Animation: New entry on my blog at Film Annex on my introduction to the Poetry of Canadian Poet Ralph Alfonso. You can read it here. I was introduced to Ralph’s poetry in 1997 when I came across one of his ‘zines in a bar. Long…
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Continue reading →: #DICKWHITFORMAYOR and his… Cat brings holiday panto fun @ Red Sandcastle Theatre
Red Sandcastle Theatre continues its annual tradition of holiday fun for all ages with its musical pantomime #DICKWHITFORMAYOR and his… Cat. Co-written by Jane Shields and Rosemary Doyle (who is also Red Sandcastle’s owner and A.D.), all the classic panto characters are here – with a twist and a decidedly…
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