by Sam Mooney
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I am. Still. But…
It’s the content that scares me, not the performances. Soulpepper Theatre Company’s presentation of Edward Albee’s play is stunningly good.
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By Megan Mooney
Next in the subscription series profiles is Theatre Passe Muraille.
This is the 42nd season of Theatre Passe Muraille. I’ll admit a bias here – I have loved Theatre Passe Muraille ever since I was first introduced to them in university (I lived a wee sheltered theatre life before university). I’ve never worked for them or anything, I just, I don’t know, there’s something there I connected with.
I subsequently have fallen in love with many theatres in Toronto, but Passe Muraille, well, they were my first, and you always have a certain place in your heart for your first, right?
And now, onto the info about Theatre Passe Muraille’s 2009-10 season and subscription series.
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by Sam Mooney
The Guardsman – presented by Soulpepper Theatre Company – is a romantic comedy. I’m saying this up front because if you only saw the poster on the Soulpepper site you might be expecting something dark and difficult.
My show partner got stuck in Brampton so I was on my own last night and had to resort to eavesdropping during intermission. I overheard a few people saying that they were surprised (pleasantly) that the show was a comedy.
By Crystal Wood
Edward Albee’s first play The Zoo Story is a conversation between two strangers who meet on a park bench. So Red One Theatre decided to forego actually renting theatre space and carting around a bench prop, and is staging it on park benches across the city throughout September.
And it works. Okay, it mostly works, but the company can hardly be blamed for the Air Show flying overhead, can they? Continue reading The Zoo Story – Red One Theatre
Next in the subscription series profiles is Harbourfront’s World Stage.
This one is a bit different than the other series. It isn’t a focus on Canadian theatre, it’s not even a focus on Toronto productions, in fact, just the opposite, World Stage focuses on bringing to Toronto, “unrivalled works of international and national theatre, dance, music and multidisciplinary performance from the globe’s leading artists.”
This means that there are Canadian offerings, we do, of course, create “unrivalled works”, but you also get to experience stuff from Ireland, England, Australia, Belgium, Germany, and France.
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