David French is quite possibly the most important Canadian playwright you’ve never heard of. In the 60s a wave of writers started to push against the staid, classical nature of Canadian theatre. Their desire was for playwrights to write about Canadian lives for Canadian audiences, and the most successful of these was a young man from Toronto named David French.
Hit hits the road Touring production of Broadway success Avenue Q arrives in Ottawa Whenever I get tasked with an article about one of the touring Broadway productions, it’s always a bit of a headache. What is there left to say about Avenue Q? Unless you’ve been living under a rock with poor television reception,…
The year in theatre has been fascinating and full of energy – not so much spectacular as it was thrumming with a deep, constant pulse of building momentum that promises a great future for this city.
Most important to the theatre community as a whole was the opening of the new Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre, housing one of Ottawa’s oldest enduring companies, the Great Canadian Theatre Company.
Her play delivers powerful poetry Leo is a marvellous yet occasionally uneven production from a young author whose potential – as demonstrated in her latest work – is absolutely amazing. Rosa Laborde’s play tells the story of Leo, a poet whose youth and growth parallels the Socialist revolution of Chile’s Salvador Allende. Leo (Salvatore Antonio)…
An XPress sit-down with NAC’s Peter Hinton The Wrong Son begins with a floor – a beautiful, black, lacquered floor that seems to reflect the world like a dark and gleaming pool. It anchors the production, pulls together the simple black and stainless steel accents of the set with an elegance that, in its featureless…