Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre remounts its update of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the PeopleIt’s hard to ignore the truth but it’s easy to bury it. That’s part of the problem in An Enemy of the People playing at Tarragon Theatre; a timely show that attempts to engage its audience in big ideas with some success and some failure.
Continue reading Review: An Enemy of the People (Tarragon Theatre)
People invest a lot in the media they consume as kids: the stories, the characters, and the ideas. Coyote Collective’s Like a Generation playing at Dancemakers Studio 313 wonders if those same stories don’t somehow invest in us: in our lives, our characters, and our ideas.
Continue reading Review: Like a Generation (Coyote Collective)
Confronting ideology often requires simplifying the conflict. Alumnae Theatre Company’s Antigone by Jean Anouilh, playing at the Alumnae Theatre Mainstage, clearly wants to find the heart of the struggle in the conflict, but can’t quite find its feet.
Collectif BUS 1.2.3 presents Babelle et Barbarie at Toronto’s Winchester Street TheatreAs technology becomes part of our lives, how do we, as people, understand ourselves? Babelle et Barbarie by the Collectif BUS 1.2.3. playing at the Winchester Street Theatre is a multimedia, multi-lingual performance that wants to examine the relationship between technology and identity.
Unfortunately, in the service of technical exploration the performance manages to lose itself in the presentation.
Continue reading Review: Babelle et barbarie (Collectif BUS 1.2.3.)
Using two different styles of dance can open up a whole new understanding of movement for an audience. In Street vs. Stage playing at the Factory Theatre Mainspace as part of the 2015 Toronto SummerWorks Festival, producers Tina Fushell, Molly Johnson, Emily Law, and Sabina Perry deliver the joy of dance with a collection of incredible dancers.