The CCPA Alumni Company Presents Get Happy and The Pitch. May 14-28 2016. (media release) Canadian College of Performing Arts Alumni Launch Two Hot New Productions Hailing from all across Canada, a new musical theatre company will be touring Vancouver Island presenting two new works created and presented by graduates of the Canadian College of Performing Arts (CCPA). Overall, CCPA alumni are some of Canada’s most successful singers, … [Read more...]
The CCPA Alumni Company Presents Get Happy and The Pitch. May 14-28 2016.
May 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment
The Unfortunate Ruth at Uno Fest 2016. A review.
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The Unfortunate Ruth at Uno Fest 2016. A review. Uno Fest audiences will remember Tara Travis from her performance in The Six Wives of Henry the Eight (Uno 2014) a multi-character, rapid-paced and highly comical historical “play of possibility”. Her facility to switch characters and accents engendered such buzz and audiences that the show was moved from the Intrepid Theatre Club to the much larger Metro Studio, and sold-out. In The … [Read more...]
Harvey, at the Chemainus Theatre Festival. A review.
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Harvey, at the Chemainus Theatre Festival. A review. Harvey by Mary Chase, currently at the Chemainus Theatre Festival May 6-28, 2016, is an endearing and enduring classic of the American theatre cannon, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1946, and showing remarkable longevity in its 70 year history (including a 2012 Broadway revival). This winsome and whimsical tale of a gentleman, Elwood Dowd (Mark DuMez), living outside society’s norms, with … [Read more...]
Inside/Out at Uno Fest 2016. Interview with Patrick Keating.
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Inside/Out at Uno Fest 2016. Interview with Patrick Keating. Inside/Out is part of Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Fest 2016. I had the opportunity to interview Patrick Keating. What sparked the creation of this show? I had been thinking of writing the story for over a decade but I was reluctant to because most of the people in the theatre community (Keating is an actor with an impressive list of film, television and stage credits to his name) … [Read more...]
Lavinia at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Jon Lachlan Stewart.
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Lavinia at Uno Fest 2016. Interview with Jon Lachlan Stewart. Lavinia is part of Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Fest 2016. I had the opportunity to interview Jon Lachlan Stewart. What sparked the creation of this show? The event that sparked the creation of this show was the attack on Jyoti Singh in Delhi, December 2012. I was shocked, outraged, and began to look into how our society still enables violence against women. How does this … [Read more...]
Rzeka Czasu: River of Time at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Grace Salez.
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Rzeka Czasu: River of Time at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Grace Salez. Rzeka Czasu us part of Intrepid Theatre's Uno Fest 2016. I had the opportunity to interview Grace Salez, the author. What sparked the creation of this show? The spark was a solo performance workshop that Lina de Guevara was giving at Royal Roads in 2014. I did a short piece about my mother. Lina liked what I presented and asked if I had more material. I … [Read more...]
Laissez-Faire at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Freya Olafson.
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Laissez-Faire at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Freya Olafson. Laissez-Faire is being presented May 27 and 28th in a double bill with okay.odd (by Milton Lim) at Uno Fest 2016. I had the opportunity to interview Freya Olafson. What sparked the creation of this show? ‘Laissez-Faire’ was commissioned by and created for Ainsley Hillyard as a solo performance work; it was developed with the generous support of the Alberta Foundation for … [Read more...]
okay.odd at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Milton Lim.
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okay.odd at Uno Fest 2016. An interview with Milton Lim. okay.odd is being presented May 27 and 28th in a double bill with Laissez-Faire (by Freya Björg Olafson) at Uno Fest 2016. I had the opportunity to interview Milton Lim What sparked the creation of this show? Can you speak to your collaboration with the other artists mentioned? Practically speaking, I created a short-length version of okay.odd. last June for a modular arts event … [Read more...]
Long Day’s Journey into Night. A conversation with designer Patrick Du Wors.
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Long Day’s Journey into Night. A Conversation with Designer Patrick Du Wors. Next up for Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre is Eugene O'Neill's classic Long Day's Journey Into Night (May 10-22, 2016). Set and costume designer Patrick Du Wors has a long history with Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre—he was the designer for the 2009 inaugural season—As You Like It, Death of a Salesman and The Fantasticks—designed A Street Car Named Desire in 2010, … [Read more...]
A Lie of the Mind at Theatre Inconnu May 3-21, 2016. A review.
May 4, 2016 By 1 Comment
Lie of the Mind at Theatre Inconnu May 3-21, 2016. A review. Sam Shepard is arguably one of America’s greatest living playwrights—his scripts veritable treasure troves of “bon mots” and aphorisms, constructed to reveal the discordant and unhappy underbelly of a society disassociated with itself. His caustic and probing examination of family structures and the ties that bind is in sharp relief in A Lie of the Mind, currently running at Theatre … [Read more...]
