All posts by Heather Bellingham

Heather studied film at Humber College and English and Theatre at UTSC. She works as a stage manager, usually watching from the booth or lurking backstage. She has written for various websites since 2009. Unofficially, she’s also a total nerd with an obsession with sci fi TV series, fantasy novels, Dungeons and Dragons, and and video games. Follow her on Twitter at @bluealbow4eva.

Rob Ford and the Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist (The Blacklist Committee for Unsafe Theatre) 2011 Toronto Fringe Review

It’s 2018. The G20 Summit has not gone well. A bomb has gone off, killing several people. One of the suspects is thrown out a window – and a lone maniac investigates. This is Rob Ford and The Mysterious Case of the Flying Anarchist, directed by Caroline Fournier and Matt Jones, and it just gets stranger from there. The show is playing at St. Vladimir’s Theatre for the duration of the Fringe.

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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Urban Bard)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Urban Bard’s mission statement says that it’s “focused on using Toronto’s urban landscape in unexpected ways to stage entertaining and relevant classical theatre.” In this particular instance, the classical theatre is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Scott Moyle), and the urban landscape is the courtyard of Dundee Place at Yonge and Adelaide.

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