Belle Moral NAC presents Ann-Marie MacDonald’s latest play It’s rare for an author to have great success in disparate fields, but lauded Canadian novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald is also extremely well known for her dramatic writing. Her latest work, Belle Moral: A Natural History, concluded an extremely successful run at the Shaw Festival, only to pick…
A terrifying future of Climate Wars Gwynne Dyer’s latest book takes a ruthless look at our coming world Reading Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars made me think of religious experience. As a boy I was terrified to my core at the realization of Hell: a world of unending, merciless suffering caused by my own actions in…
Winter theatre Some selections for the freezing season Randy Hughson and David Fox in Buried Child. Photo: Oliver Domenchini There’s a post-familial numbness in the new year that sets deep in the brain like a frost, caused by too much family, too much food and too much contemplation of the past. From all accounts, SevenThirty…
A Year in Revue Theatre in Ottawa has seen one common theme: Growth When you think back over the past year, undoubtedly the biggest thing to happen to theatre in the Ottawa area is the renovation of the old home of the Great Canadian Theatre Company and its resurrection as The Gladstone. For an old…
Raising the kings Seven Thirty Productions remounts a dark tale Kelly: “The bitterness, the savageness, comes through” “When I arrived here in Ottawa, this was my second play. I put it on in the upstairs of the Aulde Dubliner pub in the Market,” John Kelly’s voice lilts in a slow Irish brogue. “But of the…
An author’s long journey Ottawa’s Michael Blouin launches first novel Ottawa author Mike Blouin’s journey back to his art began in the form of a letter. “Back in 1996 I left home one weekend to pick up a writer’s digest – a list of publishers. I had been receiving rejection letters one after another and…