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STAGE

Double Bling Bang Bard

The Comedy of Errors, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
10.03.2010

So here’s the situation: a stranger comes to town and finds himself mysteriously drawn into somebody else’s life-in-progress. Meanwhile, a guy who’s dug in and married money discovers himself locked out of the house and his calls bounced. Kafka or farce? Peter Hinton’s Comedy of Errors pursues both options.

THEATRE

Chronique d’une fuite annoncée

Excuse-moi, Théâtre Jean Duceppe

by Mélanie Grondin
04.03.2010

La fuite a lieu lorsque l’on ne peut ou ne veut plus lutter contre la réalité. Selon Henri Laborit dans L’éloge de la fuite, nous pouvons fuir de différentes façons : les drogues, la psychose, le suicide, la solitude ou l’imaginaire, mais comment peut-on continuer à fuir lorsqu’on est confronté par les méfaits de cette [...]

STAGE

Spirited Excess & Bawdy Silliness

The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus, MainLine Theatre

by Marc Seltzer
02.03.2010

Not to be missed at the MainLine Theatre is a musical comedy reimagining the Greek god of wine, Dionysus, in middle age. With text and lyrics by Jeremy Hechtman and Patrick Goddard, inspired by a story of Garrison Keillor, this is smartly written comedy delivered with great timing by a well-rehearsed and able cast.

STAGE

Prickly Nest

DO ANIMALS CRY, USINE C

by Tao Fei
25.02.2010

In-the-know North American audiences do not miss an opportunity to see a Meg Stuart work, and her latest Do Animals Cry reminds why. Making their first Montreal appearance in over four years, Stuart’s Belgium-based company Damaged Goods goes to the volatile core of private family life to wrestle out two hours of visceral, unruly physical [...]

DANCE

Check The Backseat

ROADKILL, CINQUIÈME SALLE

by Tao Fei
12.02.2010

Disclaimer: roadkill is actually, seriously scary. Cinematic horror is not the most popular choreographic pursuit, but collaborative Brisbane-based company Splintergroup suggests it’s a frontier in contemporary dance worth visiting. With roadkill, their dance theatre thriller set in Australia’s mythic outback, Splintergroup makes its Montreal debut to conclude Cinquième Salle’s three-part Australian dance series.

THEATRE

A Night to Remember

Michel & ti-Jean, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
06.02.2010

For the record, a young Michel Tremblay never went stateside to track down the legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac, though watching George Rideout’s brilliant new play inspired by What if … you’ll be tempted to believe he did. Michel & ti-Jean’s invitation to suspend disbelief is easy to accept.

THEATRE

Charming, Disarming Company

Geometry In Venice, Segal Centre

by Lev Bratishenko
05.02.2010

My quarrelsome companion and I argued during the intermission of Michael Mackenzie’s Geometry in Venice. She claimed I was only interested in comparing the play with Henry James’ novella, on which it is based, and that this was ‘boring’. I claimed she was drunk. Of course, I was completely correct.

THEATRE

Please, Rock the Boat

The Daily Miracle, Infinitheatre

by Marianne Ackerman
30.01.2010

Whatever else can be said about The Gazette, she has proven herself a worthy muse. Brian Moore’s novel The Luck of Ginger Coffey and William Weintraub’s Why Rock the Boat? both pillaged newsroom antics for material in the early Sixties. Now a former copy editor has taken another kick at the old girl, on her imagined [...]

STAGE

And It’s Beer, Beer, Beer!

BIG 3RD EPISODE, USINE C

by Tao Fei
28.01.2010

Auteur cinema does not put us in a resting, gaping state; beer commercials do. French-Austrian performance group Superamas explores the straight-to-the-bloodstream effects of mass media by producing a freshly-squeezed concentrate from the familiar pulp of romantic comedies, soap operas, commercials and music videos.

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Thursday 11.03.2010

Blogs
Marianne Ackerman
- Riding The Wave To MECCA 09.03.2010
  Is it just me, or are Montreal theatre artists riding a new wave of excellence? The Montreal English Critics Circle Awards (MECCA) seems to […]
Noah Richler
- The Writing Life (5): “The Writer as Athlete (and Not)” 03.03.2010
  A rough patch: all those January plans and nothing adding up. No money coming in, no big thoughts, not even small ones that are all that int […]
Daniel Weinstock
- An Elegy for Joey 14.02.2010
  I only saw the Ramones live once, at the late and unlamented Plateau Auditorium. It was the day of my 17th birthday, and my girlfriend had s […]
Claude Lalumière
- The Films of 2009 #5: My Top 10 05.03.2010
  Counting down to my favourite film of 2009… 10. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kasuma; written by Diablo Cody; starring Megan Fox & A […]
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At the Dièse Onze Jazz Club tonight, another double bill with Christine Tassan and friends; followed by Frank Lozano and friends ... Colin Hunter: Crooner & "Chairman of the Board" reprises at Upstairs while Taurey Butler does his usual Thursday stint at House of Jazz ... Stay tuned Saturday for the third of the special three-part dialogic session with Professor Norman Cornett, featuring world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Ivar Mendez ... [more]