The minute you walk into the Theatre Sainte Catherine you realize that Cornered is a play that required a considerable amount of thought. The entire interior has been reconfigured as a boxing ring. Then Vinnie, perfectly played by Christopher Moore, comes bouncing onto the stage/ring and starts shadow boxing and you know you are in [...]

Muriel Romanes, the artistic director of the Scottish company Stellar Quines Theatre, has been working for three years with director Serge Denoncourt and writers Clare Duffy and Yves Pierre Lemieux under the aegis of Clare Shapiro at Imago Theatre. The result is ANA, a world premiere in French and English with subtitles in both.

Warona Setshwaelo walks onto the circle of black tiles at the Mai theatre and greets everyone in the audience for being there and then proceeds to grab their hearts and tear them into shreds. Stori Ya is a marriage of traditional story telling with its elliptical repetitions and chants and character morphs, and the great [...]