Unique Pieces
Bloor West Village Players
About THE COTTAGE by Sandy Rustin The true meaning of fate, identity, and marriage are called into question as a...
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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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ZOMBOCALYPSE! is a wickedly wicked, hilarious panacea for all the political and social identity blahs we have right now.
From the wickedly wicked creative mind of Eric Woolfe comes ZOMBOCALYPSE!, a hilarious throwback to the 80s, filled with big...
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‘The Last Five Years’
Production produced by Lighthouse and Pine Theatre Collective Presenting Partners: Summersby Productions and South Shore Summer Theatre A small exodus...
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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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An important educational cultural experience, performed with some humour, relevant dramatic impact, and a fitting conclusion.
The theatre is meant to be educational as well. It’s not always about sitting back and being entertained. Sometimes we...
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Nothing to enrich or deepen the Catholic faith in this ‘Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.’ It’s pretty to look at and wonderful to hear distinct voices tell Gospel stories, but I learned nothing new about these four women in this abstract production.
From a practicing Catholic perspective, the world premiere of Erin Shields’ Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary is strikingly beautiful to look...
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VOICE CHOICE. One of Toronto’s best theatre plays in the city right now. ‘Dance Nation’ is brave, bold and uncompromising in direction, performance and movement.
I chose not to read the trigger warnings listed on the Coal Mine website for Dance Nation. I don’t have experience...
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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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