The Politics Of Emotional Deserts

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by Coralie Duchesne


The multi-talented team of Mike Payette and Mathieu Perron, who interchangeably wear the hats of producer/director/actor with equal aplomb for their Tableau D’Hôte theatre company, bring us another compelling Canadian play: the Montréal première of A Line in The Sand by Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Yussef. More →

FILM

Documenting Endangered Principles

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The Most Dangerous Man in America, Cinema du Parc

by Justin Scherer
12.03.2010

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith’s Oscar-nominated documentary, tells the captivating story of an ultra-conservative hawk and war strategist turned whistleblower and dissident. This consistently absorbing depiction of Ellsberg’s fascinating life watches principles collide with the world of high politics. It documents the life [...]

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THEATRE

Double Bling Bang Bard

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The Comedy of Errors, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
10.03.2010

So here’s the situation: a stranger comes to town and finds himself mysteriously drawn into somebody else’s life-in-progress. Meanwhile, a guy who’s dug in and married money discovers himself locked out of the house and his calls bounced. Kafka or farce? Peter Hinton’s Comedy of Errors pursues both options.

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BOOKS

Pure Candy for Geeks

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The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To, by DC Pierson, Vintage

by Joseph Elfassi
09.03.2010

For a lot of people, two types of writing are automatically considered opposites: either you read prefabricated made-for-Hollywood-production best-selling novels, or you read difficult elitist and intellectual novels. Over-generalization aside, we mustn’t forget there’s a huge middle ground between Dostoyevsky and Dan Brown. The ambassador for that middle territory should be DC Pierson, author of [...]

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MUSIC

Poor Wet Cat Redux

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Nelligan, Monument National

by Lev Bratishenko
08.03.2010

André Gagnon’s opera Nelligan premiered in 1990 at the Grand Theatre de Québec with a pop cast. On Saturday, the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal reprised it, twenty years on, at the Monument National. A more ambitious production than anything the Opéra de Montréal has dared at Place des Arts, it is full of [...]

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BOOKS

Best Canadian Poetry: Formal Grace

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The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2009, edited by A.F.Moritz, series editor Molly Peacock, Tightrope Books.

by Maxianne Berger
07.03.2010

Fifty-four periodicals submitted their 2008 issues to A.F. Moritz, editor of this second poetry anthology in the Best Canadian series. When Moritz was awarded the 2009 Griffin prize, the judges’ citation referred to “his formal grace”—an aesthetic which clearly underlies his choices. Of the magazines known for publishing edgier work, only PRECIPICe even makes the [...]

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DVD

Explosive Pain

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The Hurt Locker

by Carol Krenz
06.03.2010

Director Kathryn Bigelow is into metaphors big time. The Hurt Locker, her Oscar-worthy film’s title, can mean any number of things – a dangerous physical space, or a wounding of the mind. It might also refer to what Staff Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner) keeps in his foot locker – the detonators he’s risked life [...]

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TV

Behind Leno’s Prime-Time Flop

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Jay Leno Show, NBC

by Marc Zaffran
05.03.2010

In retrospect, NBC’s decision to replace its entire 10 o’clock drama line-up by a daily Jay Leno Show was not only ill-advised, it was suicidal. For a simple but irresistible reason: on an occasional basis, viewers may prefer to spend easy time with talk show hosts and glamorous guests – but, in the long run, [...]

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THEATRE

Chronique d’une fuite annoncée

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Excuse-moi, Théâtre Jean Duceppe

by Mélanie Grondin
04.03.2010

La fuite a lieu lorsque l’on ne peut ou ne veut plus lutter contre la réalité. Selon Henri Laborit dans L’éloge de la fuite, nous pouvons fuir de différentes façons : les drogues, la psychose, le suicide, la solitude ou l’imaginaire, mais comment peut-on continuer à fuir lorsqu’on est confronté par les méfaits de cette [...]

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