Theatre
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Theatre looking alive and well this season
It looks to be an exciting year for the Winnipeg theatre scene.
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A new twist on an old tale
Vladimir Mayakovsky’s The Bedbug, a satire of 1929 soviet bureaucracy and abandonment of the revolution to New Economic Policy men and five-year plans, has been adapted by Adhere and Deny to take place in 1990s North America and eventually, 2042 (after its hero, Bobby Markowski’s body is frozen and thawed in the future).
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Politically charged theatre? Only if it’s Canadian!
For the last five years, local theatre troupe Theatre by the River has been performing a mix of classical works and new Canadian plays.
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Koller’s Magpie a frightening tale of redemption
Compared to film, theatre has a more difficult time producing bone chilling fear.
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Something for everyone
In just nine years, Winnipeg’s FemFest has grown from an intimate showcase for local playwrights to a weeklong event that brings in artists from across Canada and the U.K.
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The greatest show on Earth
“A few years ago, it was closing night of the festival, and there was a thunder storm the likes of which I’ve never seen,” says veteran Fringe performer TJ Dawe when asked to recount his favourite memory of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.
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A dance most cruel
Somewhere between the graceful movements of a ballet dancer and the intricate footwork of flamenco comes the passion of the bullfight.
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Directing young people’s theatre isn’t child’s play
Leslee Silverman firmly believes that children are our future, and has been cultivating imaginations for almost 30 years.
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Well-composed and evocative
Here’s a risky bit of theatre that would be almost clownish, in the theatrical sense of the word, were it not for the despair running through it.
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The bitterest of battles
To paraphrase David Mamet, a bard formerly showcased by Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival: drama is about people trying to get something, come hell or high water - it’s a contest of wills.
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The best of the fest
If you can find better acting anywhere else at this year’s Master Playwright Festival, I’ll kiss your shoe.
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Here be ghosts
“What’s the point of talking, when neither of us can fool the other?” wrote Swedish dramatist August Strindberg in The Ghost Sonata more than a century ago.
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Utterly dark and absolutely hilarious
The word “pariah” defines an outcast, someone who is rejected by society, often for failing to adhere to the common morality.
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U of W theatre department brings a classic comedy to the stage
For most people, a stage production begins with dimming lights and an opening curtain. It ends a few hours later when the real world is relit and the stage is once more sealed off behind its fabric barrier.
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Music shines while acting flickers out
Back To You is a little like Walk The Line, had Johnny Cash been Canadian, female and – unfortunately – more boring.
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‘That’s the ROYAL Manitoba Theatre Centre to you…’
The Manitoba Theatre Centre is adding another letter to its acronym.
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The unseen scene
Winnipeg is home to a vibrant and dynamic improvisational community, but the majority is unaware that this theatrical art form even exists in our city.
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Chilling obituary to a dead system
Black comedy is a rather paradoxical genre by its definition, as it somehow manages to combine elements of the truly, irredeemably tragic and the uproariously hilarious, while still retaining the elements of both.
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Manitoba Theatre Centre goes Cuckoo
The Manitoba Theatre Centre has found the perfect play to kick off their 2010-2011 season.
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Plays on the fringe expand in the Exchange District
“There is a boundary that cannot be crossed in mainstream theatre,” said John Bent Jr., the head of sound at the Manitoba Theatre Centre Mainstage. “But at the Fringe ... anything goes.”