3,074 stories by "The Charlebois Post"
Cut Looseby Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreA few weeks ago I received two pieces of bad news in the course of 24 hours. First, my fiscal sponsor for the past four years informed me that their one…
This Is the Unfolding of Lifeby Robyn Lester@RobynRobinRobThe Tashme Project: The Living Archives created by Julie Tamiko Manning and Matt Miwa is a play that demonstrates the true beauty of…
Photo by Cal ChengFans, fun and frolicking at fiftyMcGill's Savoy…
Undercurrents Move Youby Jim Murchison @JimMurchisonOne of the great joys of festivals like Undercurrents and Fringe is the spareness of the theatre. I am not a hater of great elab…
(photo by Julieta Cervantes)Unfettered Joyby Zoe Erwin-LongstaffHarbourfront's World Stage brings us Untitled Feminist Show (UFS), written by New York playwright Young Jean Lee, with choreog…
Daring Happinessby Caitlin MurphyUmberto Eco said that "We like lists because we don't want to die." In Jennifer Tremblay's play The List, an unnamed woman " suffering an isolated exis…
(photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)n00b: not for newbiesWhen identities become mergedby Jason BookerSitting in my seat, waiting for the show to begin. Yes, the sound of the school-children become…
Two Lives EntwinedSome people are forever bound together…for better, or for worseby Robyn Lester@RobinRobynRobThere are some heavy themes at work in Lisa L'Heureux's Ciseaux. Political uph…
A Production With No PurposeNo Porpoise Productions: A rough start for a new companyby Stuart Munro@StuartMunroTONo Porpoise Productions' first offering to Toronto audiences is a new adaptat…
In a recent interview, photog par excellence Michael Cooper reminded us, "drama unfolds in a photograph with what you don't light, rather than with what you do light." In this gorgeous David…
Game On (Life as Sport)by Jim MurchisonRider Girl is a play that works as a play and a pep rally all the while drawing analogies to the game of life. I can only imagine how it plays in Saska…
Remembering A Lifeby Jim MurchisonBrian Fidler plays Will. A small box of his late grandfather's things is the foundation of memories of a wonderful man whose mind has eroded by the onset of…
Rick Roberts (photo by David Cooper)Introduction to Government 101In Which the Writer Receives Her First Political Educationby Morgan McPhersonMy name is Morgan, and I am a political neophyt…
Seduction of Heart and Mindby Sonia BlanchetteLinda Griffiths' Age of Arousal begins with Rhoda Nunn (Lisa Jeans) brushing Mary's hair. Mary Barfoot (Eleanor Crowder) has just had a terrible…
The Said and Unsaid of Forgivingby Gaëtan L. CharleboisSoheil Parsa is an award-winning director, writer, dramaturg, choreographer and teacher, whose professional theatre career spans thi…
Vancouver's Théâtre la Seizième's lovely teaser for Evelyne de la Chenalière's Des fraises en janvier. It is almost certainly one of the most accomplished promos we've seen from a Cana…
Proud...(Short...not so sweet)by Gaëtan L. Charlebois@gcharleboisIt's been a sordid couple of weeks. And, forgive me in advance, this will be about me blowing off steam and I will try not…
Sophocles Re-Statedby Estelle RosenHarrison Collett is a U2 Political Science/Theatre student. This is his first foray into direction, having only previously appeared on the McGill stage in …
How Fringe festivals made me a better artist, entrepreneur and personby Jean-François Plante-Tan@cravatebleue_(photos by Olivia Bowman)Jean-François Plante-Tan is a Montreal-based arti…
Sharing the Springboardby Cameryn Moore@camerynmooreI read with some interest TJ's piece last week about the death of Fringe touring, but I wasn't particularly disturbed. Yes, of course, the…
Lucy Peacock, Diane D'Aquila (photo by Andrée Lanthier)Hinton's Chekhov's Seagull by Caitlin MurphyIn the program for The Segal Centre's production of The Seagull, adapter and director…
This Is WarAnd War Is Hellby Jim MurchisonEric Coates designed a season with the theme "fearless" and this is perhaps the most fearless play so far. The subject of Canadian troops in Afghani…
Leah Holder, Step TaylorGet Ready to Rumble. Code White brings the A-game. by Lisa McKeown @lisammckeownI wasn't sure what to expect as I entered the brightly lit second floor…
Joseph Ziegler and Nancy Palk in Tribes. Photo by David Hou.Communicating your identityLanguage and self at core of Tribesby Dave RossExpression - how do you express yourself? What is y…
