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Writing non-fiction’s a bitch – a truth not universally acknowledged.

– Will Aitken in This Writing Death

Theatre

Chekhov for Beginners



by Natalie G.

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Don't know where you were sitting, but there were lots of laughs.

– comment by Suzy Charto

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Marianne Ackerman

FILM

Shedding Skin, Sharing Secrets

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Documentary film Margaret & Evergon captures the mother/muse relationship between a fearless woman and her acclaimed artist son

by Marianne Ackerman
29.10.2011

What would possess an acclaimed art photographer to shoot his 80-year-old mother in the nude? Well, she wanted him to do it. Hounded him.

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BOOKS

No Exit

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Exit, by Nelly Arcan, trans. David Scott Hamilton, Anvil Press

by Marianne Ackerman
05.10.2011

If an author’s life bears any relation to her writing, then even more so her death. In the case of Nelly Arcan, it is impossible to read this outstanding Quebecoise novelist’s final work without being aware at every turn that she took her own life days after completing the manuscript.

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BOOKS

Anglo-Irish Montreal Revisited

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The O'Briens, by Peter Behrens, Anansi

by Marianne Ackerman
21.09.2011

Peter Behrens is back in town this weekend to meet fans and read from his new novel, The O’Briens, at the Westmount Public Library. Set in California, Western Canada and (mostly) Montreal, it follows Joe O’Brien, great grandson of Fergus from The Law of Dreams, who, as a willful teenager, leads his siblings out of dire circumstances in Pontiac County, Que.

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EVENTS

High Praise for Infringing on Buffalo

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Montreal-inspired festival scores.

by Marianne Ackerman
12.08.2011

We’ve said it before and let’s say it again: Montreal is the capital of creative ideas. Latest proof: success of this year’s Infringement Festival in Buffalo, USA. A spin-off of our own great event!

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CRITICAL I

Be Careful What You Wish For

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03.05.2011

Shortly after I voted, the doorbell rang. It was a gentleman about my age, dressed in a suit and tie, bearing NDP pamphlets.  We fell into conversation, in French, naturally.

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CRITICAL I

Silence, Exile, Cunning

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Amitav Ghosh, Blue Met

by Marianne Ackerman
02.05.2011

Amitav Ghosh up close: a memorable experience, even with a couple of hundred other people in the room, the backs of their heads obscuring sight lines. An occasional glimpse of his ruddy face, black-rimmed glasses and moon white hair sufficed.

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CIRCUS

Maniac On a Mission

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Patrick Léonard, La Chapelle

by Marianne Ackerman
26.04.2011

What if suddenly a whole pack of potential actors and dancers ran away with the circus? As a matter of fact, this is what’s happened in Quebec.

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