Congratulations to Victoria Ilgacs and her guest, they will be attending tomorrow’s production of “No Exit” at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Thank you to the people at Nightwood Theatre and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
If you would like to attend you can purchase tickets for: $20 -$45, or PWYC (pay what you can) on Sundays. Or, if you are just feeling sad because you wish it were you who had a pair of free tickets. Fret not dear friend you will have another chance to enter in our weekly contest series which will be posted every Monday. So check again.
To learn more about the play, below are excerpts from the press release.
The Belle of Winnipeg, playing at the Winchester Street Theatre, fulfilled a long-time wish of mine: Actors were silent. Throughout the entire play, not a single actor said a single word.
This wasn’t done in the spirit of some German art-house, where they moped about the stage, sadly reflecting on the meaninglessness of life, but in the style of a silent movie. Set to live piano music and using film projection, the play tells the story of a bride in 1882 who, without prospects, runs away to Winnipeg and finds herself in a bordello. Those who have read enough history to know the likely fate of such a woman will be surprised to learn that hilarity, rather than horror, ensues.
Would you like to win two absolutely free tickets to see Nightwood Theatre‘s presentation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential masterpiece No Exit? If you would, then all that you have to do to win them is to send an e-mail to us at: contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line: “No Exit Contest”.
There is a wealth of material available when it comes to shows about family dysfunction, and I’ve seen many through my life. Wandering into the Canon Theatre tonight, my ever sceptic brain wondered whether August: Osage County would live up to the hype that its Tony and Pulitzer Prize awards had given it. The answer is yes, yes it does. Continue reading August: Osage County- Steppenwolf Theatre Company→
