Theatre

There’s a line in Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy that says something to the effect that nothing in life should last longer than two hours. If only the playwright had heeded his own words! The first act of this three-hour play is top-notch. It’s well-paced and the laughs are plentiful. Stacey Fownes as Phoebe, the quirky, […]

Filmmaker Sam Fisher’s first play In The Backseat wraps up our post 9/11 concerns and fears in a comedic wrapper.

The audience in the tiny Theatre NS Space on Agricola is packed cheek to jowl. The room is hot. The chairs are hard. Yet, the discomfort ceases to matter when a Dutch librarian (Christian Murray) steps onto the stage and begins his 90-minute monologue about a quest that starts with a library book returned 113 […]

Extra chairs were laid on for Saturday night’s sold-out performance of Harold Pinter’s deliciously twisted exploration of the question haunting us all: What is this thing called love? Sarah (wonderfully and sensuously played by Vanessa Walton-Bone) and Richard (Phil Reid, visually and note perfect in a tricky multi-leveled role ) have been married for ten […]

“What happens to a dream deferred?” Poet Langston Hughes asked that, once. In “This is the Rest of Your Life!”, one of two similarly themed short plays featured as part of the show “Ready, Set, Life!,” writer/actor Geoff Kolomayz asks it, too. Kolomayz’s play is a sometimes heavy-handed exploration of the tension between idealistic dreams […]

I hope that there is someone out there on this last day of The Fringe combing this blog for a great show to end off with, because I can recommend one. “Beautiful City” by Saints Alive! Theatre Company is a moving musical powered by an amazing collection of young talent. It’s basically a Romeo and […]

“Hippolytus” would have been a little more enjoyable if Cole’s Notes had been provided at the door. This modern-day version of Euripides’ classic play presupposes that the audience is familiar with Greek myths and goddesses. But even familiarity the ancient story would not have saved this play. The writing is confusing. For example, we supposedly […]

Tough is one tough play to watch. Essentially a 70-minute fight between a couple, it starts off turned up to eleven and never really lets up. The Bobby has cheated on his girlfriend and her best friend caught him. As the argument progresses, with the best friend egging on the tension, it is revealed that […]

The first two times that I attempted to go see Newfoundlander-turned-Torontonian Wanda Carroll’s one-woman show “The Road Less Gravelled”, it was sold out; the show played to a packed house again last night. And impish, hilarious, enthusiastic Carroll deserves all the attention she’s been getting. In just over an hour, Carroll takes the audience on […]

Poor Jordan, straight arrow Haligonian, would be art history student and innocent. In Lunduntown, a wry comedy written by Alan Mercieca and Glyn Jones, Jordan’s footloose on a mission. Namely to convince his aging free-spirit London-based Uncle, flakey Charlie Dibbles, to come to terms with and thereby to deal with a pressing family matter back […]