Yellow Rabbit’s Dream Machine nearly complete One Yellow Rabbit’s Ottawa debut comes in a flashing tangle of limbs, a ringing soundscape, and, above all, in sublime words. It is a stylish and extremely ambitious presentation, a homage to the literary Beat movement of mid-century America, centred on the legendary (and Canadian-inspired, incidentally) mechanical device that…
T.E. Lawrence and Robert Graves’ rebellion When you’ve been part in the unimaginable slaughter of WWI, what does one do in its aftermath? With the world reshaped through monumental sacrifice, do those men who once lay at the very burning core of events simply become the flotsam of history? Written by playwright Stephen Massicotte, The…
Londonstani delivers manipulating ‘devices’ It was with some narrowing of the brows that I picked up Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani. The North American dust jacket is a piece of delicious eye candy, but absolutely littered with glowing words like “electric,” “ball-grabbing” and “brilliant.” One British review of the book even gave the silliest praise modern society…
Vision Theatre begins its new season with the unofficial Canadian premiere of Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon. It is an ambitious and tricky play because it has little action, with a sparsely elegant set and simple lighting, and focuses primarily on dialogue and comic delivery, relying entirely on the strength of the cast and the eponymous…