Apart from his (pathological?) obsession with airplane disasters, Istvan is a filmmaker and film enthusiast, but began his creative adventures in theatre. Starting out as an actor, he soon discovered a preference for life behind-the-scenes. He has experience in lighting design, stage management and production management, but his passion is writing and directing. With several short films and an indie feature under his belt, film has been his focus in recent years, but theatre has been calling him back. You see more of his critical writing at his film reflection blog: http://captiveviscera.wordpress.com/
Seams is a play steeped in history. If your taste is for well-made, conventional theatre, this SummerWorks entry by The Seams Collective is a solid choice .
Set in a Moscow theatre in 1939, Polly Phokeev’s play follows the lives of six costume makers during the troubling political and social climate of Stalin’s Soviet Russia. As these characters tear fabric apart, then sew it back together again, love and hate are woven together. Continue reading Seams (The Seams Collective) 2015 SummerWorks Review→
I’m always signing myself up for dance shows. Why? I’m not knowledgeable about dance. I’m not even particularly into it. It’s the challenge, I guess, that I crave—to test my boundaries, explore unfamiliar forms of expression. There’s always something, other than the dancing itself, that I’m drawn to when I decide to experience a show like SMASH Entertainment’s Touch of Psycho at the Al Green Theatre, part of the Toronto Fringe. In this case, I was intrigued by the notion of delving into the mind of a psychopath. Continue reading Touch of Psycho (SMASH Entertainment) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review→
Seams is a play steeped in history. If your taste is for well-made, conventional theatre, this SummerWorks entry by The Seams Collective is a solid choice .
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