Madeleine Copp saw her first show when she was four years old and it was love at first sight. She pursued a bachelor’s in theatre production and design and English literature, culminating in a love for flexible, innovative, and diverse theatre artists that challenge all our preconceived notions of the stage. Her thesis, Printed Voices: Women, Print, and Performance pushed for new interpretations of closet drama from the early modern to modern period in the hopes of seeing more female playwrights included in the performance canon. Since graduating, Madeleine continues to seek out unexpected, startling, and challenging works that leave her angry, speechless, and wonderfully confused.
Of course, I know when I sat down that its an ambitious project. Think about it: how many kids in that audience were familiar with the Disney movie? Live-action or animated, if you put on a Disney show it should do one of two things: either embrace its roots or deliver something unexpected.
Title of Deed questions the meaning of home, on stage now in Toronto
To say someone is ‘here’ begs the question: what, precisely, is that place? Nightfall Theatric’sTitle and Deed, playing at the Tarragon Theatre Workspace, follows the story of one man trying to dig into the nature of leaving home and arriving in a new place. Unfortunately, this production begs the question a bit too pointedly of its audience, as its answers are often safe and mostly underwhelming.
Mockingbird Close is a quick-witted dark comedy playing at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto
It never matters how much people care or love or even feel about another person, memories are always full of holes that get eaten away by preferred fictions. Eroding memory in the face of tragedy is the core of INpulse Theatre’s Mockingbird Close playing at Red Sandcastle Theatre.
There is no closure to be found in this show, just an uneasy, reflection on the nature of community, family, and what we want to be true.
What if you got the opportunity of the lifetime but you had to play up every stereotype you’ve spent your life battling? Bobby Del Rio’s Professionally Ethnic playing at the Toronto 2017 SummerWorks Festival explores the consequences of that decision and has a little fun on the way.
YPT’s Beauty and the Beast is a hit with kids but misses the mark with some adults, on stage in Toronto
Turtleneck arrives on the Toronto stage, “doesn’t get much better.”
Title of Deed questions the meaning of home, on stage now in Toronto
Mockingbird Close is a quick-witted dark comedy playing at the Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto