Tag Archive for the term: theatre (Page: 4)

Well, Bread and Puppet (cheap art and political theatre) was just in Montreal this week for the Anarchist theatre festival, so I have puppets on the mind, and found this amazing, slightly awkward but awesome video interview with the director of a puppet company called Bobbindoctrine (the company, not the director) in Houston Texas talking [...]

Somewhere in this clusterfuck a good play is buried. Somewhere mired in the septic swamp of Haunted Hillbilly: the Hiram Woodside Atrocity is a powerful night of theatre. Oh right you probably weren’t there and don’t know what I’m talking about so it is an original musical by Montreal’s Sidemart based on Toronto writer Derek [...]

I wish this play had been terrible; this review would be so much easier to write because I could fill the page up with bile. Instead local Pumpkin Theatre’s Short Story Long is so powerfully mediocre in every imaginable respect it leaves me at a loss.
Ok so like the plot and stuff; famous Montreal writer [...]

Michel Tremblay has created an enormous, interwoven, powerful body of work, all of which balances on the edge of a world between reality and shadows, all of which has been at the vanguard of social critique about religion and poverty in the daily life of Quebecois Montrealers. Anglo reviewers of Forever Yours, Mary Lou, running [...]

Here it is, from the mouths of (Uncalled For Improv) babes;
“Friends,
The 13th Hour is, as you may already know, your favourite late-night talk show/dance party. But for this, the second ever performance of the 13th Hour outside of the Montreal Fringe Festival season, we bring you a varied and ecclectic series of brilliant reasons to [...]

Straight from their mouths to the pages of the Indyish blog. I claim no editing. -Tristan

Tha’s Deir Logo!

These are the facts:
1 - St. Patrick’s Day commemorates the patron saint of Ireland, Booze.
2 - Uncalled For celebrates the patron saint of comedy, Questionable Decision Making.
3 - Nothing improves Questionable Decision Making like a hefty helping of [...]

If Uncalled For had sat down to write, block, and rehearse their performance, and produced with the skits we saw that night, I probably would have thought it sucked. But, because everything was concocted on the spot, it was completely awe-inspiring. So does that mean can only enjoy improv if we lower our comic standards?

So I was sitting behind some middleagedlady who was reviewing the show at Mainline for one of the local newspapers and during intermission the middleagedwomen she brought with her said “I’m missing American Idol for this!?” and then the theatre student next to me asked the reviewer what she thought of the show and she [...]

I’m confused. I shouldn’t have liked Mainline’s staging of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler but I really really enjoyed Mainline’s staging of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Wait first off I hate regurgitating plots so go to Mainline’s website and read their blurb about the play…
so click here
Ok so you get the drift. So…where to start….ok.. lots of good [...]

I checked out “The Cyclops” at the Wildside Festival at the Centaur last night. What a delightful play! It’s about the secret fantasy love-life of an institutionalized psychiatric patient, Ballor. Set in two different worlds - the “real” world and Ballor’s imaginary world - the original script thoughtfully explores how mental illness distorts realities [...]