Reviews
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: In Canadian Stage’s Fat Ham, revenge is a dish best served smoked
Fat Ham is self-aware of its nature as an adaptation, twisting the audience’s familiarity with both Hamlet and Blackness to disrupt their assumptions of who these characters are as people.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Kyle Purcell.
REVIEW: How Shakespeare BASH’d transformed The Merchant of Venice into a tense, layered tragedy
Julia Nish-Lapidus’ recently closed production sensitively explored the issues raised in Mark Leiren-Young’s Playing Shylock without purporting to offer any answers.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz.
REVIEW: The Secret to Good Tea balances poetry and humour at London’s Grand Theatre
This co-production with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre offers deeply personal insights into under-acknowledged aspects of Canada’s colonial past and present.
iPhoto caption: Table for Two (L) photo by Dahlia Katz, Blind Dates (R) photo by Jae Yang.
REVIEW: Table for Two and Blind Dates expand our understanding of love
Both productions suggest that the most important love story is the one we’re all still writing: the journey of embracing ourselves and our experiences.