I’ve neither given away nor sold my eggs. But there are many women who have, and their story is at the core of Hatched.
But just as compelling is the story of the children hatched from donor eggs. Like Nicholas (Jakob Ehman), whose mom couldn’t get pregnant and yadayada – tada!
As if life weren’t complicated enough, try on this version of nature vs. nurture. Are you my mother? Are you?
The Hours That Remain brings new blood to a new theatre space at the Daniels Spectrum in TorontoVenues don’t necessarily add depth to storylines. But that certainly is the case with The Hours That Remain, a play about loss and acceptance playing in a part of downtown Toronto currently undergoing major revitalization.
The venue is the three-week-old Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre (recently renamed Daniels Spectrum), bringing the arts to a previously rundown area many of us have no more than driven through.
A new play from the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company playing in that $38-million-dollar jewel gives us reason to visit.
Continue reading Review: The Hours That Remain (New Harlem Productions)
Passions rage in the COC’s latest opera production at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing ArtsThe week Toronto both proposed reinventing itself and questioned its stature as a world-class metropolis, I was up on the third ring of Diamond and Schmitt’s still awe-inspiring Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, taking in Il Trovatore.
Add to the above the fact that my companion for the night was my decked-out, opera-loving youngest daughter. In any case, our evening ended up being as much about the arts and culture experience as it was about Il Trovatore specifically.
Continue reading Review: Il Trovatore (Canadian Opera Company)
Hooking up love and loneliness in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Drake’s old recording studio in Toronto
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea is performed in a new theatre space that was formerly Drake’s recording studio. It contains strong language and sexual content, and was written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony and Emmy Award-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley. And that’s just my teaser.
The play is intense. While it may be about “two of society’s rejects,” we’ve all, to some extent, been there – to the depths and highs of making love and making war. So it becomes, as good theatre does, an exploration of the self. But it is intense, and also extremely harsh.
Continue reading Review: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Sterling Studio Theatre)
It took a downpour, plus a whistle, strict gesticulation and an order from the evening’s host to finally get the crowd gathered for Dusk Dances to pick up and leave Withrow Park. Which says it all: even bad weather can’t put a damper on this annual site-specific performance. Continue reading Review: Dusk Dances 2012 (Dusk Dances)