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…
An elegant statement NAC English Theatre begins its 2008 season with style Under the artistic direction of Peter Hinton, the National Arts Centre has undergone something of a beautiful little renaissance over the past few years. Productions have pushed outwards on every front, becoming more stylish and colourful, or more sombre and profound, depending on…
Something wicked this way comes Big-time Broadway production Wicked comes to the NAC The spiky Doctor Dillamond Musicals are stupid. And I mean that in a glorious, beautiful, massive, transcendent way. They are coarse, unrefined torrents of emotion that clutch at you with powerful moments of inspiration. Sometimes they overreach and become ridiculous with the…
“I admire a director with a strong aesthetic and conceptual sense of a piece. One who isn’t afraid to really put his fingerprints all over a production. Strong artists are always needed,” Caroline Cave’s voice pushes through my crackly mobile phone connection as strong and dry as sunlight, “and this is a really strong artistic team.”
Native spirit Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar reshaped by native artist collective Mojica breathes new life into Caesar “You have to emerge from the theatre changed in some way, or else the whole thing is a waste. You can be mad at it, or you can be provoked to action, but some change has to occur.” These…
The set of the NAC’s new production of Macbeth is elegantly sparse. In the opening scenes we’re faced with 10 inviting chairs, all set in a perfect line with each other, spaced evenly, divided into equal groups and placed under solid rectangles of light. The natural and divine world is in order. But soldiers violently and suddenly overturn select chairs and nature starts to spiral further out of alignment as chairs appear in more haphazard and scattered places.