While most of the entertainment comes from the goblins’ antics whenever the Shakespearean text is paused or subverted for comic effect, the secret sauce to this whole endeavour is that it really is an honest-to-goodness staging of that text, designed to showcase the performers’ near-virtuosic mastery of the material.
By Ryan Borochovitz /Oct 7, 2024
iPhoto caption: Wonderful Joe production still by Ian Jackson.
“More than a few people said to me, ‘so this is your last show’,” says the legendary puppeteer ahead of his production of Wonderful Joe at TO Live. “Trust me, I never said this is my last show. I think that’s maybe a bit of ageism, or wishful thinking.”
By Ryan Borochovitz /Oct 2, 2024
iPhoto caption: Michelle Urbano, artistic director of Crossroads Theatre (formerly Shakespeare in Action).
“If we start to think about the arts as a health service, I feel like that shift in thinking could do a lot for the arts, and a lot for the people of Toronto,” says Michelle Urbano, artistic director of Crossroads Theatre (formerly Shakespeare in Action).