Posts by author:

Laura Freitag

THEATRE

Mother, metaphor, mirror – ANA transforms the stage

Thumbnail image for Mother, metaphor, mirror – ANA transforms the stage

With a strong ensemble cast and remarkable mise-en-scène, ANA offers an imaginative and complex vision of womanhood.

by Laura Freitag
02.12.2011

She is Pope Joan, Anne Freud, Marianne, Joan of Arc, a prostitute, a goddess, a bag lady, a mother, an orphan, a murderer, an artist, a victim, a metaphor, a concept, and most of all a mirror.  Imago Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company’s new play ANA is a remarkably imaginative production which takes its [...]

[...]

THEATRE

Colour-Blind Rez A Hit

Thumbnail image for Colour-Blind Rez A Hit

Tomsom Highway’s The Rez Sisters returns after 25 years to Toronto’s Factory Theatre.

by Laura Freitag
01.12.2011

Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters, a play oozing cultural memories and heritage, has returned to Toronto’s Factory Theatre after twenty-five years. Which only begs one question: “What took so long?” Perhaps one of many great tragedies in Canadian theatre is the infrequency with which Tomson Highway’s plays are performed.

[...]

THEATRE

What the Puck!

Thumbnail image for What the Puck!

Four Minutes if you Bleed writers Ned Cox and Alexandria Haber speak out.

by Laura Freitag
17.11.2011

If you’re looking for a Canadian family comedy in time for the hockey – sorry we mean holiday – season, it seems that Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks Selection may have the perfect play. Four Minutes if you Bleed is a play written by Alexandria Haber and Ned Cox that has been in development since [...]

[...]

THEATRE

Life Behind Bars

Thumbnail image for Life Behind Bars

Unfit For Bears, Zeitgeist Theatre Collective

by Laura Freitag
21.09.2011

In 1938, four years after the Prison for Women (P4W) was opened in Kingston, Ontario, the Archambault Royal Commission infamously described the prison as “unfit for bears.”  Zeitgeist Theatre Collective’s new piece, Unfit for Bears, is a harrowing piece of theatre which follows an eclectic group of inmates in P4W.

[...]

FESTIVAL CITY

A Family Affair

Thumbnail image for A Family Affair

Le Chant du Dindon is circus for the whole family - even the pets

by Laura Freitag
15.07.2011

Some children have dreams of running away with the circus, while other children, of much better fortune, are born into it.  Rasposo is a family affair—they’re the company that produced Le Chant du Dindon or The Turkey Song.  Watching Le Chant du Dindon is much like entering into one family’s travelling circus act. 

[...]

FESTIVAL CITY

Circus in the Bachelor Pad

Thumbnail image for Circus in the Bachelor Pad

Patinoire tumbles and swerves into success at Montréal Complètement Cirque

by Laura Freitag
12.07.2011

Everyone knows him.  He’s your eccentric, offbeat bachelor brother, or uncle, or someone’s best friend.  He has delusions of grandeur, he subjects people to quirky jokes and bad magic tricks, and he often gets far too drunk at family gatherings.  His clothes are ill fitting or come from a completely different decade altogether. 

[...]

FESTIVAL CITY

It’s Got Groove, it’s Got Meaning

Thumbnail image for It’s Got Groove, it’s Got Meaning

Independent filmmakers and multi-disciplinary artists join forces at the irreverent Mascara & Popcorn Festival

by Laura Freitag
08.07.2011

While most Montréal summer festivals have people emerging from their dwellings in delight of the sweltering heat, this new celebration of all-things-underground will have you venturing back indoors for a healthy dose of edgy refuge. The Mascara & Popcorn  Festival toes the line between guilty pleasures and bold fetishes, boasting a lineup which includes everything [...]

[...]

FESTIVAL CITY

Infringement Therapy puts the Actor back in Spectator

Thumbnail image for Infringement Therapy puts the Actor back in Spectator

Pelting rocks at oppression in Plateau alleyways

by Laura Freitag
01.07.2011

“Do you feel oppressed?  Do you feel society is oppressive?  Do you feel that culture is oppressive?” probes Dr. Catharsis, in an unmistakably parodic German accent, smack dab in the middle of Parc des Amériques.  

[...]