Graham Pilsworth

In 1962, the celebrated American playwright Edward Albee unleashed on Broadway, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, his now classic excoriating dissection of a dysfunctional marriage. At first glance, playwright and director Charles Crosby’s Fringe play, A Mid-Life Marriage, seems to have taken the Albee play as a template for his go at examining a marriage […]

Sometimes a choreographer has the savvy to bring into existence dramas through informative movement. Skills that are unique to one theatrical form, under the tag team direction of imagination and wit, can effortlessly transfer to another. In The Consumer Experiment, you can see this at work and it working well. Jennifer Spicer, who choreographed this […]

This charged drama is set in a dingy Newfoundland cop shop interview room undergoing renovations and thereby missing an evidence recording video camera. The issue at hand is the true nature of a murder confession offered up by a minor league repeat offender of public mischief capers. The twist? The arresting police officer and an […]

One of several fine productions to recommend at this year’s Fringe Festival is the exciting drama, Lear’s Daughters. In this entertainingly clever play, Brit playwright Elaine Feinstein imagines just what in the heck transformed three plucky little sisters, so full of personal promise and joir de vivre, into a trio of scorned and sour women […]

Toronto’s own little Gladys Smith grew up to become arguably, between 1914-19, one of screendom’s (of any era) most beloved film stars – Mary Pickford. This petite dynamo made scores of movies, effortlessly switching from whimsy and comedy to high drama essentially as a tomboy who resolutely maintains her femininity. In Living Shadows, a wonderful […]