By Leanne Perry on May 27, 2010
Still on the fence about seeing Mump & Smoot’s CRACKED? Let pictures from this fantastically dark and twisted show convince you! CRACKED is on May 26–29 and June 1–5 at 8 pm, with a matinee May 30 at 4pm. May 27 is Pay-What-You-Can, and May 28 is Artist Talkback. Tickets start at $22 (our subscriber [...]
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By Leanne Perry on May 5, 2010
Curious and intrigued about Noam Gagnon’s 10 Things You’ll Hate About Me? Take a look at these photos from the show and see what the critics are saying about this masterpiece. Go, see this show – it is beautiful, funny, and always heartfelt. You’ll walk away with a piece of Noam Gagnon. – Gay [...]
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By Leanne Perry on April 28, 2010
10 THINGS you’ll HATE about ME is a Molotov cocktail of spectacle, dance and desire from choreographer/performer Noam Gagnon. Organized as a series of deeply personal vignettes, 10 THINGS walks the tissue-thin line between art and autobiography. What can the audience expect from 10 Things? For 10 Things, I want to take the audience into [...]
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By Leanne Perry on April 13, 2010
One of the best, most surreal works of imagination I’ve seen in ages. – See Magazine, Edmonton It’s a children’s puppet show for adults, and adult theatre for children. The Tooth Fairy, The Old Trouts’ latest production, aims to explore the dark truth of the teeth trafficking industry: What is truly lost (and what could [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, Family Series
By Leanne Perry on April 6, 2010
Ali and Ali 7: Hey Brother (Or Sister) Can You Spare Some Hope and Change? is a follow-up to Ali and Ali and the aXes of Evil. Can you tell me about the characters and original story? Marcus Youssef (MY): The characters were two Arab/Persian stereotypes Cam and I played improv games with in our [...]
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By Leanne Perry on March 31, 2010
Click below for an audio clip about Ali & Ali 7! ALI AND ALI RADIOSPOT Bookmark on Delicious Recomend on Facebook Share via MySpace Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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By Leanne Perry on March 19, 2010
Bretta Gerecke is the set, lighting, and costume designer for Elephant Wake. She graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Interior Design in 1992 and from the University of Alberta with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design in 1996. She is the recipient of 13 Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, an [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, backstage, PuSh Festival
By Leanne Perry on March 17, 2010
Vancouver’s Chutzpah! Festival is a large and dynamic performing arts festival, established in 2001, that showcases both established and emerging professional Jewish artists, their collaborators, and/or work with Judaic content. Each year it features a stunning repertoire of dance, music, and theatre from an exciting and eclectic selection of local and global artists. With a [...]
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By Leanne Perry on March 9, 2010
Joey Tremblay’s Elephant Wake is a profound character study about Jean Claude, the last man standing in a defunct francophone village in Saskatchewan. It is a unique, yet universal, coming-of-age story inspired by Tremblay’s own experiences growing up in the now-extinct Saskatchewan town of Ste. Marthe, near the current boom town of Rocanville. For Tremblay, [...]
Posted in 09/10 Presentations, playwrights
By The Cultch on March 4, 2010
By James Long & Maiko Bae Yamamoto Over the last three or four years we at Theatre Replacement have been delving deeper into the words of interviewed individuals to create our work. We do this for a number of reasons, including our interest in the immediate, our fascination with unique experiences that could never be [...]
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