Tag Archive for the term: review

If you were hanging out anywhere in the Mile-End on the idyllic, sunny Saturday that was July 12th, chances are you dropped in at the Pomme-Pomme craft fair at Sala. Then, after longingly fondling fabric squares and crocheted penis-puppets, you’re likely to have done a few reps of the following: guichet, Pomme-Pomme, Casa/coffee, Pomme-Pomme, bike […]

Belleisle is a young group of old souls who jumped into recording to catch these sounds as they are coming together all early, earnest and yearning in the band-becoming-band process. Tasha Cyr’s voice is particularly delicate, charming, soo soul sad and careful, thoughtful, dropping soft things in her phrasing. (Tasha is recording with the Darling […]

So, as promised, Elran (my partner in life and Indyish) and I will now attempt to review the Steel Pulse show we attended together out on the glowy little Bonsecour quay at the edge of the Old Port here in Montreal. Elran and I talked about the show all the way home, and this is […]

Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old […]

We Is Blunderstruck! begins in a refreshingly low-tech manner with a technician pressing play on a cassette-tape player with a mic pointed at the speaker. Blunderstruck is a band of three hard-rocking clowns whose shy uncertainty and DIY attitude make them incredibly endearing. Comparisons with the Fringe’s other clown-rock band, Die Roten Punkte, are inevitable, […]

When you’re spending time in a city other than your own, you always feel an extra degree of connection with, and pride for, your other hometowners who are also representing abroad. If those homies are representing with a killer b-boy/swing dance show, well — you can’t feel much prouder than that.
That was the feeling watching […]

Any Fringe Festival goer who has spent much time lining up at the Toronto Fringe has probably been approached by a large number of people handing out flyers, promoting their Fringe shows, highlighting the various stars they may have gained from this review or that and generally trying to say that if you only see […]

These days (as opposed to, say, the days of ancient Greece), anyone creating theatre has to deal with an inescapable truth: a lot of people just don’t care about live performance. Or at least, they’re not familiar with it. People tend to like the things they’re familiar with, and in the case of modern storytelling, […]

Chris “Hilarious” Gibbs is a mainstay at Fringe Festivals across Canada for good reason. His new show, The Further Adventures of Antoine Feval, allows him the opportunity to portray the type of character he works best with: the ignorant idiot. The show is a sequel to the more simply titled Antoine Feval, but this should […]

Enraged and eloquent, subversive and silly, acclaimed U.K. rantsmith Jem Rolls one-ups himself with this show (no small success, considering his past powerhouse performance pieces) and becomes an epic poet in his own fashion, spitting out an hour-long torrent of thoughts that is an anti-ode to consumerism and a lament for the state of the […]