Tag: Theatre

By James Koslowski

What would you do if you were living on the street? Unsheltered from winter’s blast, your thin emaciated body weak from malnutrition and fingers stiff with cold? Would you accept a middle-aged man’s offer of food and the warmth of his cabin at the edge of a dark mysterious wood? Necessity will make even the… Continue reading Theatre Review: Get Away interpersonal delight

By Cayley Evans

A certain kind of delusion seems inherent within the season of summer. Textbooks and silk ties to the wind, whenever summer starts, everyone is convinced this will be the summer to end all summers. Somehow, the season will make us transcend our abilities for us to be reborn. Unfortunately, things rarely pan out that way-summer… Continue reading Theatre Review: Leisure Society more than just leisurely good

By Jaime Burnet

You’re gnawing on the last of the lemony paste-filled chocolates and February 14 has come and gone. Roses have wilted and that poor bear would like to take off his red sequined vest right now. Chew your cud of waxy chocolate, but Valentine’s Day shouldn’t be about material crap. The “V” in Valentine’s Day has… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Ms. Va-jayjay: You talking to me?

By Sherri Shergill

Yay for gay. Or maybe not. Issues pertaining to homosexuality sweeps through the province, as everybody puts their two cents in. However you feel about the issue of gay marriage, Hidden Insanity Theatre brings the province Romeo and Hamlet, a comedy dealing with that very topic and the passionate opinions therein. Written and directed by… Continue reading Theatre Preview: To gay or not to gay

By Garth Paulson

“We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which one will go first–rock’n’roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me,” John Lennon once said. That comment resulted in an eruption of controversy. Beyond the mass Beatles burnings and radio… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Bad Jesus

By Katherine Fletcher

“Accept your inner dork!”Just one of the hilarious, but poignant lines from Greg Nelson’s Mick Unplugged, part of this year’s playRites Festival from ATP. Jack (David Trimble) teases Mitch (Stephen Sparks) mercilessly about his new ambition and flat out tells him to “accept your inner dork.” Although Jack tells Mitch he’s a failure, he’s giving… Continue reading Theatre Review: Mick Unplugged embraces inner dork for inner goodness

By Kyle Francis

There can be no sweeter joy than projecting one’s imagination onto a barren page and bringing it to life with words–creating a world within a book is dangerously close to playing God. As much of a head-inflation writing creatively can be, writing to sustain your life is different terrain entirely. Professional writing is a treacherous… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Greg Nelson: Intimate and unplugged

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

The rules dictate strip poker is assumed to be hilarious. Whether drunk off gin in university, or having a few too many bottles of wine in your thirties, it’s always uproarious. That is until an argument about the baby monitor breaks out. The rules command by the time we reach our mid-thirties we are married… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Wine in French high society

By Kyle Francis

Whether it’s taking a trumped up STD test to rewrite a midterm or inciting armed rebellion to get back into art school, nearly everyone has done something drastic for the sake of their continued education. Malcolm, the starring character from the upcoming Dark Forest Theatre production of Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs,… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Little Malcom freed from the middle, gets into facism

By Sherri Shergill

What if a sexually transmitted pandemic raged across North America, but you just couldn’t keep it in your pants? This is the problem challenging the young character in the University of Calgary production of Newhouse, a drama questioning human reaction to social crisis. Placed in a contemporary Canadian setting, this adaptation of Don Juan and… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Newhouse dripping with STDs