Katherine Ramdeen is a student at Studio 58 who will be acting and co-creating a piece for Risky Nights #2 entitled Falling Up Stairs, directed by Chris McGregor.
Kirstie: The easiest way for me to sum up my Nixon in China experience is to say that it felt like an intellectual rather than a dramatic experience. Although the performance was stocked with larger than life characters (Nixon, Mao, Pat Nixon, Mao's wife Jiang Qing, Henry Kissinger, and Mao's premiere Chou En-Lai) their encounter was not framed within a traditional narrative.
There are few Canadian playwrights as talented as Daniel MacIvor when it comes to crafting stories hinged on characters’ inner workings and emotional states - and he reaffirms that fact with his latest offering as a writer and director; Communion, now playing at the Tarragon Theatre.
Odysseus Chaoticus indeed. This piece is visually compelling, innovative, surprising, intimate, vulnerable, riotous, bawdy, eloquent and well executed to boot! A liberal dose of nourishing comedy for us heroes of the day-to-day.
Felix Culpa has done an admirable job with a challenging script. Playwright Tom Cone's latest opus, Donald and Lenore, is a surreal journey with two characters going nowhere in a made-up paradise of sorts. Set in a Polynesian-inspired Tiki Room underneath an unnamed airport, ex-con Donald performs nightly in a tiki room act with his boss Lenore. Depending on her mood, she calls him either "Jailbait" or "Donald #7". They seem to have creative differences - Donald wants to share his highly inappropriate stand-up act about his former cellmate Hernando while Lenore insists on pretending it is their big...
Billy Marchenski & Linda Quibell as Donald & Lenore
