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In Translations, Brian Friel explored cultural assimilation in British-occupied Ireland and here in The Communication cord, Friel takes those themes for a spin in an Irish farce about the challenges of communication, understanding, and deception. Learn more about The Communication Cord, presented by SevenThirty Productions at The Gladstone.
REVIEW: In Hannah Moscovitch’s East of Berlin, presented by the Great Canadian Theatre Company, seventeen year-old Rudi Klausner learns the truth of his father’s involvement as a camp doctor at Auschwitz in World War II and spends years trying to understand and to escape the sins and legacy he’s inherited. Should you see it?
REVIEW: What happens when a pair of married and long struggling actors realize that their talent could be put to use in a much more lucrative way? Grab a seat for Norm Foster’s Self Help, at the Ottawa Little Theatre, and you’ll learn just how funny the answer to that question is. Should you see it?
Spread over three nights, the Algonquin College Scriptwriting program throws their emerging scriptwriters into a furnace they call Hot House. The third and final night for this year happens on Monday, April 2. Check out our exclusive video preview.
Is history just something that happened a ways back or is it something that we’re still living now and always will be? When a German teenager living in Paraguay learns that his father was a Nazi doctor who conducted experiments in the camps, his life and moral compass are thrown into disarray. Then, in the course of trying to free himself of his father’s sins, he falls in love with the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor. Check out the photo and video preview on productionottawa.com
Hal and Cindy Savage are actors turned self improvement coaches who might be able to use a little bit of their own medicine in Norm Foster’s comedy, Self Help. And that’s before the dead body shows up. Check out our video and photo preview of Self Help, running at the Ottawa Little Theatre.
The year is 1996, AIDS runs rampant in New York’s East Village, and a group of starving artists and lost souls live, love, and lose in Orpheus Musical Theatre’s production of the hugely popular Rent, now playing at Centrepointe Theatre. Should you see it?
To recap, every year, the Algonquin College Scriptwriting program likes to throw their emerging scriptwriters into the hot seat of a furnace they call Hot House. Night two of three to this year’s Hot House happens Monday March 5th.
Brian Friel’s Translations sees a small Irish town put upon by British soldiers who are there to create a new map of the area with anglicized names. Former resident of the town, Owen, has been hired by the Bristish to act as translator and facilitator for the job, putting him right in the middle of the ensuing conflict. Should you see it?
The Great Canadian Theatre Company’s Undercurrents festival lives up to its subtitle, “theatre below the mainstream” as it delivers six unique shows, most of which you’re only ever likely to catch on the festival circuit. Six shows means six reviews. Which ones should you see?
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