Monthly Archives: April 2011

A Stage full of Top Girls and Some Lunasea

top girls               Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls was written in 1982, at a time when Great Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, had driven the country into a deep recession, raised taxes and saw the unemployment levels spike … Continue reading

Posted in caryl churchill, leana todd, luna/sea theatre, martha irving, mary colin chisholm, mauralea austin, rebecca parent, sherry smith, stephanie macdonald, vanessa walton-bone | Leave a comment

Jeff Madden: On the Jersey Boys Down Under

jeff madden photo by pierre gautreau Jeff Madden was well known within the Canadian theatre community and to Canadian theatre audiences for his eight consecutive seasons at the Shaw Festival before his Dora Award winning performance as Frankie Valli, which … Continue reading

Posted in australia, dancap productions, jeff madden, shaw festival, the stratford festival, theatre royal | Leave a comment

When It Rains: A Play 2b Seen

christian barry & anthony black 2b theatre’s newest play When it Rains, written and directed by the company’s co-Artistic Director Anthony Black, is all about projection; the projection of self and others, as well as the question of how we … Continue reading

Posted in 2b theatre, anthony black, busstop theatre, christian barry, conor green, francine deschepper, nick bottomly, samantha wilson, sebastien labelle | Leave a comment

The Debacle is Anything But

sue leblanc-crawford photo by scott munn               When I was an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, Zuppa Circus Theatre, now known most often just as Zuppa Theatre, was the very beating heart of Halifax’s optimistically emerging independent theatre scene. Zuppa shows … Continue reading

Posted in ann-marie kerr, ben stone, james tyson, plutonium playhouse, ranters theatre, sue leblanc-crawford, zuppa theatre | Leave a comment
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