Tag: plays

My preview of the Regina Little Theatre One-Act Plays Cabaret…

…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Before Angel Genereux became the producer of Regina Little Theatre’s programs of one-act plays in 2007, they were seen strictly as a venue for new talent on and backstage, and traditionally drew small audiences. Genereux thought they could draw new audience members, too. She boosted publicity. The result: last spring’s …

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My preview of the Regina Fringe Festival…

…and in particular of Julia Mackey’s play Jake’s Gift, is in today’s LeaderPost. An excerpt: Mackey says one of the main reasons she created the show was to let veterans know that a lot of people really do appreciate the sacrifices they made. Another was to educate children, and Jake’s Gift, Mackey says, elicits the …

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My preview of Regina Little Theatre’s Local Talent…

…was in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Women today are expected to be beautiful and thin, wonderful mothers and wives, and dedicated to their careers — all at the same time. Those unrealistic expectations drive the plot of Local Talent, Regina Little Theatre’s final production of the season, June 10-13 at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. …

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My review of Globe Theatre’s production of Doubt, A Parable

This is the review I’ve sent to CBC’s Afternoon Edition and is more or less what I’ll be saying on the radio this afternoon (probably about 4:10 p.m., though I haven’t heard for certain). As they say, check against delivery! *** Globe Theatre is closing out its mainstage season right now with Doubt, A Parable, a …

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My review of Globe Theatre’s Mesa

Here’s my review of Globe Theatre‘s latest mainstage production, Mesa. This is the script I’ve sent to CBC. Check against delivery today at 4:13 p.m. on the Afternoon Edition.Globe Theatre’s lastest mainstage production is Mesa, by Calgary writer Doug Curtis. It’s a play that takes the audience along on a road trip from Calgary to …

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My preview of Globe Theatre’s production of Mesa…

…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: The premise of Mesa, which opens at Globe Theatre on March 18, sounds like the setup to a joke: “So this 30-something guy and his 93-year-old grandfather set out on a road trip together to Mesa, Ariz. …” And sure enough, Mesa is a comedy — but not, says …

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My CBC review of Wingfield’s Inferno

Here’s the written version of my review for CBC’s Afternoon Edition today of last night’s opening performance of Wingfield’s Inferno at Globe Theatre. As they say in the political-speech-writing-biz, “check against delivery.” *** Globe Theatre’s latest mainstage offering, Wingfield’s Inferno, opened last night in Regina, and Edward Willett was there to see it. Q. So, …

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Preview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online

My preview of Globe Theatre‘s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online now at the LeaderPost. An excerpt: For audiences, it’s not physical vocabulary but Shakespeare’s 400-year-old verbal vocabulary that may intimidate. But Geoffrey Whynot, who plays Theseus and Oberon, points out that “in real life we don’t necessarily hear every word someone speaks. …

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Putting on my acting hat again…

I’ll be part of the Saskatchewan Playwrights’ Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays this month–but not as a writer (although I like the idea of writing plays, somehow I rarely get around to actually doing so): rather, I’ll be one of the actors. Here’s how the festival is described: Local actors work with directors from …

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Broadway debut for a promising playwright…

…a fellow by the name (well, technically, nom de plume) of Mark Twain: Set in France in the 1840s, Is He Dead? follows a group of starving artists who stage the death of their mentor in an effort to boost the value of his work.Twain wrote it in 1898 (he died in 1910), but it …

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To keep his community theatre alive…

…a U.S. police officer stole a Canadian writer’s play. A long-time community-theatre-type myself, I can understand the panic when it looks like an organization may go under. But that’s no excuse for plagiarism.

Shakespeare doth prod the brain most wonderously

Of course, Shakespeare would have said it better than that. Here’s the gist of this new study: Shakespeare uses a linguistic technique known as functional shift that involves, for example using a noun to serve as a verb. Researchers found that this technique allows the brain to understand what a word means before it understands …

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