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Megan Stewart

Three-Legged Cats and Spring Friskies

Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival, Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Megan Stewart
18.05.2011

“Let’s do some culture!” announces Moonshits McGee, tonight’s “vaudevillian” host for the second evening of the Montreal Sketch Comedy Fest at Théâtre Ste-Catherine. Moonshits, wearing duct-taped glasses and an ill-fitting, scarlet tuxedo is most excited about the “eclectism” of the acts, and is bringing his “A-Material” in honour of the night.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Sketch the Town Silly

Montreal Sketch Comedy Festival Théâtre Ste-Catherine

by Megan Stewart
16.05.2011

This week, Rover officially kicks off Festival City, and it’s happening with a big serving of silly. From now until August, Festival City will provide extensive coverage of Montreal’s rich summer festival scene. With reviews, artist interviews, and Rover’s top festival picks, Rover will be a source of information and great writing on Festivals.

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EVENTS

Underdog Charm And Crazy Animal Rites

David Sedaris, Théâtre Maisonneuve

by Megan Stewart
06.05.2011

David Sedaris strides confidently onstage, stands at the podium, and begins to tell a story about a cat and a baboon. His small, lilting voice matches his stature and his unassuming air. The cat goes to a hair salon and experiences the utter monotony and discomfort of having to interact with the baboon hairstylist, with [...]

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BOOKS

Fragments of Montreal Life, Lovingly Rendered

Suddenly Something Happened, by Jimmy Beaulieu, Conundrum Press

by Megan Stewart
01.03.2011

Wine-soaked summer nights on a Plateau balcony, strangers brought together by snowstorms, the sidewalk ballet of attractive and eccentric, graceful and occasionally unruly characters – Jimmy Beaulieu lovingly renders these fragments of Montreal life in pencil and ink on the pages of his newest graphic novel, Suddenly Something Happened.

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THEATRE

Self-Construction: Artifice And Art

The Silicone Diaries, Théâtre La Chapelle

by Megan Stewart
04.01.2011

I questioned what was driving me to go see The Silicone Diaries at Théâtre La Chapelle recently. An extreme curiosity about the experience of a transsexual woman? A shameless desire to witness the freaky and possibly grotesque? A hankering for the tell-all confessions often found in one-person shows?

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ART

Pop Goes the World

Kinshasa Pop, Galerie Pangée

by Megan Stewart
07.12.2010

Putumayo World Music and Buena Vista Social Club is blasting into the pristine white space of Gallerie Pangée in Old Montreal. Hip, well-heeled art aficionados drink red wine and mingle amidst large, brightly coloured canvases. It’s a lively vernissage, but this party of artsy hipsters is demure in contrast to the hedonistic atmosphere featured in [...]

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ART

Chasing Sunset Shadows

Into the Light, Battat Contemporary

by Megan Stewart
18.11.2010

Tomer Ganihar is a booming presence in the intimate space of the Battat Contemporary gallery in Little Italy. Working the crowd at the opening of his photography exhibition Into the Light: New Work from Israel, he taps on my shoulder and pulls a catalogue out of my hands to show off his other works. I’m [...]

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ART

Childlike Estrangement

Jon Pylypchuk, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

by Megan Stewart
29.10.2010

It starts with a secret meeting of birds, who do not greet you as you enter the gallery so much as stare you down, watching from beady eyes pressed crudely into their white clay bodies. They huddle surreptitiously in a corner, atop skinny plinths of varying heights. You wonder if you are interrupting something, if [...]

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ART

Speaking Of Heads And Hands

Chicago In Glass, Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec

by Megan Stewart
28.09.2010

“I don’t normally do this, but I’d like to thank the Catholic church tonight,” Judy Chicago proclaimed from the podium of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec, housed in a former church, “for allowing work that challenges everything it stands for to be displayed in such a building.”

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