In Gardens Speak, participants negotiate their own relationships to the text. (Photo by Jessie Hunniford)
A handful of times during Tanya El Khoury’s sound installation Gardens Speak, I had to slow myself down, to stop, to let the gravity of the information I was receiving land, and to honestly consider my response to it.
That means that Gardens Speak was doing its job. [Read more…]
Actors appalled by escalating calamity. (Photo of Emma Slipp, Jovanni Sy, Tess Degenstein, Colleen Winton, and Charlie Gallant by David Cooper)
There’s something sublime about farce when it’s well done and this Arts Club production of Noises Off is very well done. [Read more…]
Ben Caplan summons superhuman energy in Old Stock (Photo by Fadi Acra)
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story is equal parts outraged and outrageous, compassionate and hilarious — klezmer concert and play. [Read more…]
This raft doesn’t always stay afloat. (Photo by Alexandre Galliez)
Unikkaaqtuat, which is billed as a circus, is a sincere and generous gift from the rich traditions of several northern peoples. From my southern settler perspective, some of the show is gorgeous and some of it is boring. [Read more…]
Jillian Fargey and Andrew Wheeler both rock in House and Home (Photo by Reznek Creative)
It’s kind of a shapeless bag of jewels, but it’s still a bag of jewels. [Read more…]
(Photo of Maki Yi by Emily Cooper)
Playwright and solo performer Maki Yi means well with Gramma and it starts off promisingly, but it quickly becomes very boring. [Read more…]
Annoyingly, this isn’t a production photo, but it does show you Amy Rutherford and Jonathon Young.
(Photo by Dhalia Katz)
Two of the three characters in Infinity claim that they can hear time. I listened very closely, but I couldn’t hear the play’s heartbeat. Hannah Moscovitch’s script is emotionally alienating and its ambitious themes are underdeveloped. But I enjoyed it — because the character voices are fantastic and, under Ross Manson’s direction, this production is exquisitely tailored. [Read more…]
