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Anna Fuerstenberg

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Emotional Hook Misses Mark

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Spectacular set not enough to overcome clichés

by Anna Fuerstenberg
03.02.2012

In Absentia at the Centaur is a play fraught with symbolism. There are bare trees, a frozen river, the endless winter and the barren (or is she?) heroine of the piece. When Collette’s husband goes missing in Colombia while working for an oil company, she hunkers down and plays psychic possum. Her older sister Evelyn, [...]

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More Slapstick, Fewer Words

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Ars Poetica a few pratfalls short of a farce.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
21.01.2012

Veronica Classen designed a fabulous set at the Bain St. Michel and the device of having poetry and text messages projected on the high tech grey walls was delightful. She also dressed a cast which was supposedly sweating in the office of a tiny poetry magazine bereft of air conditioner, in seriously dark and heavy clothes … and in a Montreal heat wave only one character wore actual sandals.

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Winner By A Knockout

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Cornered at Theatre Sainte Catherine: a brilliant two hander.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.11.2011

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 [...]

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Power Play Lacks Scoring Punch

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Four Minutes If You Bleed needs to improve its comedic timing at Centaur Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.11.2011

Ned Cox and Alexandria Haber are really good playwrights and one looked forward to great writing and good laughs in a new collaboration. The cast was impressive as well; featuring some of the most interesting actors in the city. I should have read the fine print.

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Making Her-story

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ANA co-writer Clare Duffy talks to Rover

by Anna Fuerstenberg
22.11.2011

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.

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Laughing Towards Profundity

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God of Carnage at Centaur a spectacular, must-see production

by Anna Fuerstenberg
21.11.2011

Every once in a very long while you get to see a performance that reminds you why you keep going to the theatre. God of Carnage was such a performance. Even before it started, “the curtain spiel” was delivered by the voice of a little boy. It was smart ass and cute but it was [...]

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Of Terror and Migration

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Stori Ya one-woman show at Mai speaks of an amazing journey.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
18.11.2011

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 [...]

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