Guns, beer and blood Ottawa Chamber Company puts on an intriguing local theatre experiment The Elmdale House Tavern isn’t a place I’ve ever seen in the afternoon. It’s a dusty, old, yellow-painted landmark bar deep in the heart of Hintonburg. The kind of peaceful harbour with the timeless charm of high ceilings, old linoleum and…
Staging of Boris Vian’s Empire Builders a brave leap for Ottawa theatre scene Empire Builders is something new for the local English theatre scene: a professionally produced absurdist play by Boris Vian, a French polymath. And Joël Beddows, artistic director of Théâtre du Catapulte, is the one cultivating it. Familiar with the French language theatre…
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.
It’s finally time to see what the GCTC can do inside its new home It’s a simple thing to say: There is a magic to beginnings, an insistent tug of the spirit like a great inrushing of breath. It fills you to think about witnessing things growing, changing, evolving, and that the immediate present translates…
Jesus in Montana Fringe is often an exercise in getting weird and outlandish fictional propositions to ring true. Of course, this exercise often fails. This play happily, magically and marvellously succeeds. Jesus in Montana is the successful culmination of an effort to transform an absolutely true and hugely entertaining story into a work of fiction.…
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)…