By Sam Mooney
Go see The Drowning Girls.
(My editor says that isn’t enough of a review so…)
The Drowning Girls is a joint production of Tarragon and Bent Out of Shape Productions and it’s wonderful. Energetic, vibrant, funny, and very wet.
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That Face – Nightwood Theatre – Berkeley Street Theatre
By Sam Mooney
Nightwood Theatre’s mission is to produce “essential theatre by women” , and to celebrate Nightwood Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Season they’re having a 4×4 Festival, – 4 plays directed by women. Tonight my friend Pat and I went to see That Face, playing at The Berkeley Street Theatre, the first play in the series.
Based on the publicity I was expecting a play about the fun in dysfunctional. The blurb that I read said that: – That Face is a powerful and darkly comic exploration of children who become parents to their parents.”
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International Festival of Authors – Linwood Barclay, John Brady, Jennica Harper, Ian Rankin
By Sam Mooney
Tonight I spent another evening being read to at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA). I realized that if authors are going to stand on a stage and read, they need to have a stage presence. That isn’t to say that any of them didn’t, rather some authors had presence in spades.
Linwood Barclay could stand on stage reading from the phone book and manage to stop at a place that would make me rush out to buy the phone book, just so that I could finish reading it.
He read from Fear the Worst. One sentence. A brilliant opening sentence.
And then read from his new novel that will be published in the spring.
International Festival of Authors – Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, Denise Mina, William Deverell.
By Sam Mooney
This is the 30th Anniversary of the International Festival Of Authors – IFOA.
For the record theatre doesn’t have to be a play, any performance in front of an audience can be theatre. In June I reviewed the Griffin Poetry Prize short-list readings, it was poetry as theatre, and it was great.
Tonight I went to see (or hear) Michael Connelly, Dani Couture, Denise Mina, and William Deverell read from their newest works. Ian Rankin was the host, introducing the writers. Each author reads for 20 minutes – except poets who read for 10, (kind of a strange rule).
The Boys in the Photograph – Mirvish Productions
by Sam Mooney
I was looking forward to seeing the Mirvish production of The Boys in the Photograph. There had been lots of hype, it’s an all Canadian cast, I love Ben Elton. It should have been terrific. It was fine but nothing really stood out.
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