THEATRE
Trudeau Stories, Centaur
by Marianne Ackerman
11.05.2010
The enigma of Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a bug Canadians will never fully get out of our system. His presence redefined a somewhat dowdy country in the eyes of the world, leaving us with a collective anxiety about whether we quite measured up. Brooke Johnson has captured this strange ambivalence in a beautiful one-woman show [...]
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NOTEBOOK
John Florio, Lamberto Tassinari
by Marianne Ackerman
27.04.2010
The way Mark Twain saw it, the plays of William Shakespeare were either written by Shakespeare or somebody else with the same name. What he probably meant was that the brand is unassailable, omnipotent, untouchable. In fact, Twain was one of the great doubters, an anti-Stratfordian, part of a long-simmering movement of opinion holding that [...]
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