Intrepid PLANK reviewer Justin Haigh takes on Toronto’s Next Stage Festival which continues this weekend. Here’s Justin’s take on three of the shows featured in this year's Festival.
The Making of St Jerome is part of this year's Next Stage Festival
There is something quite special in seeing a good Canadian play for the first time; especially when it features two fine Canadian actors at the top of their game.
Canadian theatre tackling the raw issues of the day. Nicola Cavendish in Mrs. Dexter & Her Daily. Photo by David Cooper.
In court masques designed by Inigo Jones in the seventeenth century, Charles I, King of England, enjoyed a perspectival vision that could be seen properly only from the king’s seat.
Naked, beautiful, natural, and perfect symbols of the male and female bodies, dancers Alison Denham and Billy Marchenski, in one full hour of a most intriguing interpretive performance, tell a history of man and woman, of the body and the soul. A piece of intricate choreography ranging from animalist primal movements to sophisticated modern gestures, their bodies reveal the rawness and the evolutionary change of the human form.
The choreographer, Alvin Erasga Tolentino, collaborates with the two dancers to weave together a unique and deep...
ADAMEVE/Man-Woman, Alison Denham and Billy Marchenski
