Theatre related writing
In pursuit of Facts Milner: “I think it’s just a question of good writing” Ottawa playwright Arthur Milner’s new political thriller touches on murder, mystery and the Middle East When you summarize the action of the new work by Ottawa playwright Arthur Milner, Facts, it sounds dreary and heavy: two policemen, one Israeli and one…
A post-apocalyptic ringmaster Margaret Atwood’s latest book tour finds her narrating the end of the world When I meet Jan Irwin for our interview, she’s sitting in a small coffee shop in the Glebe on one of the last warm mornings of a fading summer. On the table in front of her is a standard-sized…
A little spring before the sleep Autumn theatre is rich in colour So the days and nights cool down imperceptibly hour by hour as the great driving engine of summer slows down into fall. It’s a good season for Canadians. We understand this season. It’s one of work, one of activity, one of preparation for…
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…