The Memory of Water is a solid and predictable family drama about three daughters who return home to bury their mother. As if by clockwork, the skeletons emerge from the closet.
Torontonians have something in common with Victorians (the ‘resident of Victoria’ kind, not the ‘steam engine and top hat’ kind): we both happily defy stereotypes.
At my francophone junior high in Calgary, school administrators taught us to lock our classroom door, turn off the lights and hide behind our desks to avoid becoming victims of a tragedy like the one that took place at the École Polytechnique in 1989.
"All it is, it’s a carnival. What’s special? What draws us?” asks Roma in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. He’s waxing philosophical on life as he draws in a potential sale. For this version of the carnival, The Main Street Theatre Company gives us David Mamet’s masterpiece about morality and salesmen. So what is special?
Bill fucking Dow and Josh fucking Drebit do fucking Mamet
Movies adapted from the stage are nothing new. The Sound of Music, Glengarry Glen Ross and Amadeus are just a handful of examples. It’s adaptions from screen to stage that are more rare.
Festen, eric peterson celebrates or is he in the corner (with) gas?
Threading physical theatre, comedy, and painting-like montages with dance, Deborah Dunn’s Elegant Heathens is a unique and carefully crafted piece of delightful absurdity. The actors/dancers of Dunn’s company, Trial and Eros, have studied human facial and physical expressions at length.
The United States has elected its first African American president, and much public discourse has centered around the significance of this turn in American history. It is, of course, a tremendous moment, but what bothers me about the current media hoopla surrounding Obama is the sub-text of absolution; it is as if by having elected a man of colour to the most powerful position in the U.S. government, the rest of America can wipe the slate clean of its past and ignore its present tragedies.
Your Extended Plank Panel:
Michael John Unger; Rachel Scott; Alan Bartolic; Bryan Coffey and
Stacey Lynn Mitchell have all seen at some point seen Raymond Burr murder his wife.
they are composing a dance
working and reworking
and writing it down and changing things and discovering things and
going home to write it all down again and come back the next day with new ideas
