Dorianne is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program between University of Toronto, Erindale campus and Sheridan College. She writes short stories, plays and screenplays and was delighted to be accepted into the 2010 Diaspora Dialogues program and also to have her short story accepted into the 2011 edition of TOK: Writing The New Toronto collection. She is also a regularly contributing writer on http://www.sexlifecanada.ca. You can follow her on twitter @headonist if you like tweets about cats, sex, food, queer stuff and lefty politics.
Blackbird, playing at Toronto’s Artscape Youngspace, suffers from a lacking script that fails to hit the mark
Blackbird, an indie production from FilmBooth Productions, is showing in a “Flex Studio” in Artscape Youngspace, which makes it very intimate and it’s always fun to see something in an unconventional space. The subject matter, however is far from “fun”: it concerns a woman who searches out the man who sexually abused her when she was twelve years old and he was forty. The action is set in the deserted lunchroom of the warehouse where the man, now approaching sixty, works. Continue reading Review: Blackbird (FilmBooth Productions)→
Studio 180 Theatre presents Lucy Kirkwood’s play NSFW at The Theatre Centre in Toronto
My companion for the evening and I agreed that the only problem with Studio 180’s production of NSFW was that it was just too real. By the end it was impossible for us to laugh at any of the humour because it was too sad, too personally affecting. This isn’t a criticism of the show; it’s praise for successfully portraying brutal truths about the depiction of women in mainstream media. Continue reading Review: NSFW (Studio 180 Theatre)→
Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre presents Spoon River, a musical play about the ghosts of rural America
In Spoon River, Soulpepper brings together a cast of excellent actors, who are also accomplished musicians, to tell ghostly tales from a small town in a time gone by. The show is comprised mostly of songs, with some spoken pieces, and all the text is taken from the Spoon River Anthology of poetry by Edgar Lee Masters published in 1915. With a powerful score from Mike Ross and the inspired staging of Albert Schultz (the two also collaborated on the adaptation), the result is a gorgeous glimpse into the lives and deaths of people in rural America at the turn of the century. Continue reading Review: Spoon River (Soulpepper)→
Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre presents an inspired adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of The People
Florian Borchmeyer’s adaptation of Ibsen’s classic An Enemy Of The People is currently playing at Tarragon Theatre. The staging is inspired and the adaptation itself adeptly brings all the political and philosophical musings of the original into sharp relevance to the world of today. Directed by the strong hand of Richard Rose, and with a cast of the highest calibre, it is yet another impressive offering from the Tarragon. Continue reading Review: Enemy Of The People (Tarragon Theatre)→
