Just for a Moment, on stage in Toronto, comes off as “confusing” and “repetitive”

Should we pursue our dreams over those we love? And if we choose our dreams, what type of person does that make us? Things Falling Apart’s Just for a Moment by Tien Providence, playing at the Pia Bouman Theatre, examines the question of dreams, love, sacrifice, and selfishness by reconnecting two people separated by geography and connected by their past.

Unfortunately, Just for a Moment is not as good as it should be, with a strong emotional core and some cracking dialogue. Instead, it’s more like a promising work in progress still mired in structural difficulties.

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The Wild Duck Project, on stage at the Hub14 in Toronto, is, unfortunately, a “bit of a rocky ride”

You can’t live with the truth and you can’t live without it. Re:Current Theatre’s The Wild Duck Project playing at Hub 14, uses Henrik Ibsen’s play text as a basis for meditations on truth. Is it important? Should we be more honest? How does it impact our lives?

The problem, unfortunately, is that ‘the truth,’ is a subject that is almost too big to contain. Coupled with Ibsen’s text, The Wild Duck Project ends up with a selection of insight bogged down by its own ambition.

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Théatre Français brings “biographical fiction” play to the Toronto Stage

It’s tempting to leave everything behind, but what happens when you come back? Le long voyage de Pierre-Guy B by Théatre Français de Toronto, playing at the Berkeley Street Theatre, is a poignant and hilarious personal journey where you are who you are, whether at home or far away.

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