Outwrite! Acclaimed author Nalo Hopkinson comes to the Cap In some form or another, the Agitate collective has been around Ottawa for five years, organizing events, throwing parties and workshops, spreading their fingers as so many other similar groups do in order to eventually find each other and join hands. Their latest effort is a…
Winds of Dune in Ottawa The most famous epic in science fiction history comes to the nation’s capital At this point in its existence, the epic mythology born from Frank Herbert’s original Dune books is three million words long. “My father wrote maybe a million words and Kevin and I two million,” according to Brian…
Staging the summertime A sampling of upcoming theatre events The end of May sees the close of theatre season among the major companies come as abruptly as a drawstring bag. But it also opens the way for festival season in the Capital Region, starting with the infamous Fringe Festival. Still purportedly the home of adventurous…
The Rideau Project Piercing the two solitudes Part of the mandate of the Magnetic North theatre festival is to engage the community where it happens to find itself. This year that plan has taken the shape of The Rideau Project, an aggregation of six different scenes written by six separate playwrights of both official languages…
Nevermore A musical, motley, macabre exploration of Edgar Allan Poe Ryan Parker, Shannon Blanchet, and Sheldon Elter from Nevermore Edmonton’s Catalyst Theatre has been lauded by its home city with a multitude of theatrical awards and prizes. Impressed by these, and their previous work on a musical adaptation of Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Magnetic North theatre…
Evoking a positive negative NAC production is a beautiful and complicated piece of real art George Ryga’s play The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is the story of Rita Joe and her boyfriend, Jaimie Paul, who come to the city from their First Nations community in search of a freer life, but are instead destroyed by…