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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…
A fascinating experiment in Bioboxes BC Scene brings an interesting theatrical experiment to the Cap We usually think of theatre happening in a space. A section of the living world is sliced off by walls, floor and ceiling and becomes, for a brief time, a pulsing new world – even outdoor theatre is still bordered…
Odyssey Theatre starts a voyage Latest production marks a change in the company Laurie Steven is anxious the morning we meet. I can see it in the way she peers around the room over her cup of coffee and in the quick, bird-like way she answers my questions. She’s the founder of Odyssey Theatre, a…
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…
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…