There is an allegory about violence, adolescence and isolation. In Rock, Paper, Jackknife …, four strange and terrified youths arrive in an isolated and frozen village on a freighter from an equally hellish place. Marilyn Perrault thus explores the effects that violence and fear and marginalization have on adolescents.

It takes extraordinary courage to stage a new festival in Montreal. Stephan Pietrantoni has launched Montreal’s second English language musical theatre festival with Souvenir, a play about Florence Foster Jenkins, a woman who simply could not sing on key. The Centaur mounted Glorious some years ago about the same extraordinary person, but that play doesn’t [...]