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Anna Fuerstenberg

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Wild and Wooly

WILDSIDE FESTIVAL, Centaur Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
09.01.2010

The 13th annual Wildside Festival, at the Centaur Theatre through Sunday, January 17th, definitely lives up to its name. The festival brings together six cutting-edge plays – and it’s a wild and exhilarating ride all the way.

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Local Playwrights Go Public

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Tableau d’hôte Theatre, Infinithéâtre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
12.12.2009

Montreal’s been a sad place to be a playwright. The two major theatres were, and some say still are, much too interested in doing second-hand U.S. and U.K. productions, and neglecting both Canadian work and local playwrights. However, there has been a sea change with Centaur’s production of Bated Breath, and In Piazza San Domenico, [...]

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The Devil Does Country

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Haunted Hillbilly, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
11.12.2009

Haunted Hillbilly is hilarious and delightful, a romp on the dark side of honky-tonks and revival tent culture with a finger-snapping, toe-tapping integrity that is eerily contagious. When Hyram Woodside, played with great gusto and subtlety by Patrick Costello, sets out to become the brightest star in Country music, he trades in the humble cowboy [...]

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Justified Theatrics

Sexy béton II: Justice, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
01.12.2009

Outrage is a very difficult emotion to sustain. Therefore I attended the second of Porte Parole’s one-act plays about the collapse of the Concorde Bridge in Laval with some trepidation. This play about the search for justice was a much more difficult one to mount. The extraordinary thing was that all the talk about lawyers [...]

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Revisiting Sweet Innocence

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HIPPIES & BOLSHEVIKS, Freestanding Space

by Anna Fuerstenberg
27.11.2009

I will say it again, the three flights of stairs to the Freestanding Space makes one think: “This had better be worth it.” Hippies and Bolsheviks by Amiel Gladstone so very clearly is.

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A Truly Bittersweet Suite Ending

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Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Mainline Theatre.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.11.2009

The final two one-acts of George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel Suite, Criminal Genius and Risk Everything, have been launched. Genuinely satisfying as theatre, the two served to provide a workout for laugh muscles I haven’t used in years.

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The Suite Goes On

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Featuring Loretta & The End of Civilization, MainLine Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.11.2009

I admit to being an easy laugh and I certainly had a bellyful when the two jealous suitors in Featuring Loretta pulled all their slapstick bits. Liz Burns had a wonderful deadpan delivery which made her Russian chambermaid (daughter of ex-KGB kingpin who shouts too much) delightfully funny. George Walker knows how to set up [...]

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How Suite This Is

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Suburban Motel, MainLine Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
13.11.2009

When I lived in Toronto there was a story about George F. Walker that he would leave whatever comfortable digs he may have been living in, to stay at a seedy East Side hotel in order to write. It seems to have done wonders for this multiple award-winning and prodigious playwright. This offering by Tableau [...]

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A Most Difficult Birth

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BE MY BABY, Monument National

by Anna Fuerstenberg
03.11.2009

Before the opening performance of Be My Baby, the artistic director of Persephone Theater reminded the audience that this was a very special theatre company dedicated to giving emerging young professionals work opportunities. Gabrielle Soskind is a lovely person and her mandate is very important to a community long beleaguered by a dearth of opportunities. [...]

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