Dramas
Crow’s and The Grand’s ‘Primary Trust’ gives a nimble production to a script that never tightens the screws
Mouldy walls, graffiti tags, and electrical wiring. Tufts of grass sprouting through cracks in the concrete. There is even a...
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I really wanted to care about the story and the characters in Pleiades’ ‘Karma’. At the performance I attended, I couldn’t.
An extremely important twenty-first-century play about the importance of the family unit and forgiveness, Aksam Alyousef’s Karma has moments when...
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Susanna Fournier’s massive and intelligent ‘take rimbaud’ becomes stunning and intense in the messiness of troubled lives.
Described on the Howland Company Theatre website as a love letter performance poem, Susanna Fournier’s take rimbaud is set in...
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‘cicadas’ is a tautly written thriller. Directed with an assured and conspiratorial wink by Nina Lee Aquino in a production that’s stylish, sly and often unnerving.
David Yee and Chris Thornborrow’s cicadas is an edge-of-the-seat tale that grabs attention from the top of the show and...
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‘Women of the Fur Trade’ remains a resolutely sharp production of biting satire and poignant regret.
Canada, let’s keep learning more about Indigenous peoples and their gifts to the country because it’s worth it. This knowledge...
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A witty and deeply moving exploration of what it means to create, to have connection and a desire to leave something meaningful behind.
Love, legacy and creation collide in this fine production dissecting relationships and connection, Black feminist thought, queer love, and the...
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‘Vitals’ takes a terrifying deep plunge into nightmarish events with a fiery performance.
This is not a cute ad for a hospital fundraiser. Nor is it even a gritty, hard-hitting story about the...
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A passionate play about understanding familial roots. ‘The Division’ asks its audiences to sit with the reality and truth of what lies beneath the parts of our origins we might not know.
Beneath the silent pause following the concluding blackout of playwright/director Andrew Kushnir’s world premiere of The Division lies a gut-wrenching...
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MOURNING AND TENDERNESS IN ‘HAMLET SWEET PRINCE’
I remember a post-show talk after a noir version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at one of Italy’s major theatres....
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VOICE CHOICE. A thrilling and highly engaging second look with captivating performances. ‘The Surrogate’ remains an absolute must-see.
Here’s the link to my earlier review of The Surrogate in March at Crow’s Theatre: https://ourtheatrevoice.com/bold-and-unsettling-silence-speaks-volumes-in-the-world-premiere-of-the-surrogate/ You can find the...
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