Theatre
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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.”
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No boys allowed?
Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein, the creators/performers of the 2007 Fringe Festival hit Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women, have returned to Winnipeg, and they’re up to their old tricks.
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The stylist and the souse
Rita wants to be educated; she wants to know everything.
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Blood cuts deep
Vancouver playwright Kevin Loring’s contemplative Where the Blood Mixes is a strange beast of a play, one which plays heavily on parallels and contradictions.
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Putting the pieces together
The University of Winnipeg’s fourth-year Devised Theatre class is promising theatre-goers a unique experience with its latest production.
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Theatre of the impressed
Three years ago, 26-year-old playwright and University of Winnipeg graduate Daniel Thau-Eleff boldly took the stage in Winnipeg and presented a challenge.
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An endearing look Back
The set of the world premiere of Looking Back – West at the MTC Warehouse Theatre is striking to say the least. A large war monument in the centre of the stage is framed by two simple picnic benches against a backdrop of screens portraying the peaceful greenery of New York City’s Madison Square Park. This human construction of nature, along with the contrast between the intimidating monument and the quiet park, dominates the themes throughout Robert Lewis Vaughan’s bittersweet play.
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The Caravan of Courage
Not since Manitoba Theatre Centre’s legendary production in 1965 has Mother Courage and Her Children graced a Manitoba stage. For that show, MTC founder John Hirsch directed, Zoe Caldwell starred and people flocked from all around to Winnipeg to see it.
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Fen is flawless
Caryl Churchill displays her acute sense of relationship tension in all of her work, but Fen truly captures how our relationships with others shape who we become.
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Play is creative and resonant with room for improvement
The University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film showcase their creativity and range of talents in the production of Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom. The students did not simply recreate Churchill’s powerful feminist script exploring the horrors of the witch trials in 16th and 17th century Europe; they gave it a personal touch.
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Entertaining, but missing a point
Circling the stage to greet the audience, main character Derek (Rob McLaughlin) appears to be friendly and likeable at the beginning of Blue Kettle. In a heart-warming first scene, we see Derek become reacquainted with his long-lost mother (Patricia Hunter). It soon becomes apparent, however, that she is not his mother at all: Derek “collects” older women and claims that each of them is his mother.