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Truth / Dare: Nothing is Precious So Dance Your Face Off

Posted December 7th, 2012 by Claire Hill · Toronto

The lights go down and Madonna's iconic Like a Prayer blasts over the speakers. Salvatore Antonio, in impeccable Madonna-inspired makeup screams out, “Get interpretive, bitches!” and the audience is on their feet; we obey his orders.

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Summerworks Picks Take Three - Terre Haute; When It Rains; Terminus

Posted August 20th, 2012 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

Terre Haute

Terre Haute marks a stark departure for director Alistair Newton and his company, Ecce Homo. Their trademark style of ironic white-faced cabaret that has served them well in previous Summerworks productions The Pastor Phelps Project and The Ecstasy Of...

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Summerworks Picks Take Two - Iceland; Artaud: Un Portrait en Decomposition; Your Side, My Side, and the Truth; Huff; Petrichor

Posted August 20th, 2012 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

Iceland

From writer Nicolas Billon and directed by Ravi Jain, Iceland is set largely in a swank downtown Toronto condo and is structured as a series of three narrative monologues each delivered from a spot-lit chair.

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Summerworks Picks - Ally and Kev; Facts; Pieta

Posted August 20th, 2012 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

Ally and Kev

This dark and unsettling tale of revenge from writer/director Jason Maghanoy is not easy to watch, but impossible to look away from. Like Hannah Moscovitch's 2011 Summerworks entry, Little One, Ally and Kev's central characters are a sibling duo...

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Iphigenia in Tauris - hauntingly beautiful

Posted October 13th, 2011 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

The Canadian Opera Company launches their 2011/2012
season with a visually arresting and chillingly atmospheric production of Gluck’s bright and hauntingly beautiful Iphigenia in Tauris. Under the directorship of Robert Carsen and the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado, this Greek myth turned...

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The Odd Couple - back for you this fall at Soulpepper!

Posted September 28th, 2011 by Justin Haigh · Toronto

Why can’t we just get along? It’s a question that seems to resonate loudly these days; whether it be an apt mantra in the ongoing struggle for peace between Israel and Palestine, a rallying cry for American moderates exhausted by bipartisan bickering in the chambers of congress, or...

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