The Children’s Republic by Hannah Moscovitch. Belfry Theatre September 12-October 8 2017. A review. This version of The Children’s Republic has been a long time coming. Originally co-commissioned and co-developed (over a two-year period) by Great Canadian Theatre Company and The Ottawa School of Speech & Drama, first produced in 2009, then remounted at the Tarragon Theatre in 2011, it has been workshopped extensively at the Belfry Theatre … [Read more...]
What a Young Wife Ought to Know at Belfry Theatre SPARK Festival 2017. A review.
March 23, 2017 By Leave a Comment
What a Young Wife Ought to Know at Belfry Theatre SPARK Festival 2017. A review. Sometimes a play is so powerful, speaks to you across time, place and position so directly that you feel you are in the room with the actors. And, as a critic/reviewer, you wish you had a little more time to grapple with the issues and themes it unfolds, rather than rush to produce the requisite words. Playwright Hannah Moscovitch has a reputation, and the … [Read more...]
Theatrical Double Bill – The Lesson, and Essay.
March 26, 2013 By 2 Comments
“A Theatrical Double Bill” (Ionesco’s The Lesson and Essay by Hannah Moscovitch) marks the first, in what Victoria audiences can only hope will be further, collaboration between Eric Grace (Dandelion Theatre) and Julian Cervello (Scrumpy Theatre). The partners are actors familiar for their roles with the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Inconnu, and the Victoria Fringe Festival. When Grace decided to mount The Lesson, he was … [Read more...]
Little One, Belfry Theatre SPARK Festival 2013
March 21, 2013 By 2 Comments
They’re the neighbours next door and they have terrible, dark and disturbing secrets to hide and to share in Hannah Moscovitch’s psychological thriller, Little One, (currently at the Belfry Theatre’s SPARK Festival). With a creep factor tuned to high, and disorienting sound and visual effects to keep the audience off-kilter, Little One is as far from comfortable as I am willing to accept. Michelle Monteith in Little One. Photo: Natasha … [Read more...]
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