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SummerWorks: Fire & ice, & the terrible toll of oil production & transport in powerful Lac/Athabasca

Started my SummerWorks 2015 adventures at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM) last night, with the opening of Theatre Free Radical’s production of Len Falkenstein’s Lac/Athabasca, directed by Falkenstein and running in the Mainspace. Oil and water, crossing over land and across provinces. Like the fur traders of Canada’s infancy, you gotta get the product to market.Continue reading “SummerWorks: Fire & ice, & the terrible toll of oil production & transport in powerful Lac/Athabasca”

Hope in a planet – Utopia

Got out to one final SummerWorks show yesterday – this time, it was Theatre Free Radical’s production of playwright/director Len Falkenstein’s Utopia at the Lower Ossington Theatre mainspace. Karen (Rebekah Chassé), a single mother struggling to keep the family Christmas tree farm afloat, witnesses a bizarre and wondrous moment when a planet drops anchor –Continue reading “Hope in a planet – Utopia”