An Alternate World Yes, Alice, there is another world on the other side of that mirror…and it’s made for kids! In an effort to reach out to families and little children, Stratford is offering something to keep the attention of the 12 and under crowd. Big colourful costumes, zany situations and audience participation will make […]
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The Burden of Sanity In keeping with the theme of madness, Stratford Festival is offering two shows where the main character has dementia. King Lear is about the dark side of dementia, where the sufferer slips in and out of reality, frustrated, angry and hopeless. The polar opposite, Don Quixote is quite happy in his
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Nice Work – and they got it! If you like musicals with amazing dancing, powerful singing and farcical comedy – and who doesn’t? – get your tickets now for Crazy for You, on Stratford’s Festival stage, as this show will sell out this summer. Crazy for You is an interesting invention. George and Ira Gershwin’s
When Unconditional Love has Conditions Extended to Oct. 25. This production of Lear is now joining the ranks of Christopher Plummer’s Tempest in 2010, and William Hutt’s farewell Tempest in 2005 as the most popular Shakespearean plays of all time at Stratford Festival. Love between parents and their offspring should be unconditional. As soon as King Lear puts conditions
Laughter of Recognition The laughter echoed throughout the sold-out house as Victoria Playhouse Petrolia marked its 2014 season opener with Church Basement Ladies. And it is laughter of recognition, whether the audience has memories of cooking in a church basement in the sixties, or feels the discomfort of hot flashes today. The Church Basement Ladies
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Altruism to the Extreme The laughs are many as the Shaw Festival stages The Charity that Began at Home: A Comedy for Philanthropists. An early 1900 comedy, it has retained its humour, thanks to this superior cast. Lady Dennison and her daughter, Margery, are just too nice. When a self-styled reverend tells them that they
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Maybe This Time… Deborah Hay as Sally Bowles is a brilliant light shining in this otherwise very dark production of Cabaret, on stage this season at the Shaw Festival. Hayes has captured Sally completely, and in doing so, captivated the audience. Her rendition of “Maybe This Time” is so convincing that you believe she really
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When Oil & Water Mix When introducing Oil and Water on opening night, the Grand’s artistic director Susan Ferley described it as “profound, playful, powerful”. As the true story of a disaster off the coast of Newfoundland it is profound. When the results of this disaster turned into something very positive, this play is powerful.
It’s Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! After seeing the movie “Saving Mr. Banks”, one has a new take on the story of Mary Poppins. The movie is about the life of P. L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins book series. It offers insight into the battle she had with Walt Disney when the popular movie musical was
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How Do You Spell F-U-N-N-Y? If you’ve never seen an actual spelling bee, especially those leading to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the U.S., then you probably won’t ‘get’ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, now playing at London’s Grand Theatre. In Canada, we don’t take our spelling bees quite as seriously and
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