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Anna Fuerstenberg

Fading Away Brilliantly

Gordon, Segal Centre Studio

by Anna Fuerstenberg
06.10.2010

Gordon, the newest play by Morris Panych, has a smashing beginning. Literally. Carl (brilliantly played by Patrick Costello) smashes in the kitchen window of a decrepit house somewhere in an industrial area of Hamilton.

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Revisiting Sweet Innocence

HIPPIES & BOLSHEVIKS, Freestanding Space

by Anna Fuerstenberg
27.11.2009

I will say it again, the three flights of stairs to the Freestanding Space makes one think: “This had better be worth it.” Hippies and Bolsheviks by Amiel Gladstone so very clearly is.

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A Truly Bittersweet Suite Ending

Criminal Genius, Risk Everything, Mainline Theatre.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
26.11.2009

The final two one-acts of George F. Walker’s Suburban Motel Suite, Criminal Genius and Risk Everything, have been launched. Genuinely satisfying as theatre, the two served to provide a workout for laugh muscles I haven’t used in years.

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The Suite Goes On

Featuring Loretta & The End of Civilization, MainLine Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.11.2009

I admit to being an easy laugh and I certainly had a bellyful when the two jealous suitors in Featuring Loretta pulled all their slapstick bits. Liz Burns had a wonderful deadpan delivery which made her Russian chambermaid (daughter of ex-KGB kingpin who shouts too much) delightfully funny. George Walker knows how to set up [...]

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Political Theatre That Engages

Sexy béton Part 1, Segal Centre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
01.10.2009

There is something counterintuitive about a play named Sexy béton. What is duller that concrete? Yet the cast of this work have managed with great compassion and infinite professionalism to present a work that is thoughtful and moving.

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Not Quite Heavenly

Down from heaven, Monument National

by Anna Fuerstenberg
28.09.2009

The moment that the lights dim and classical voices start singing, you know you are in for serious discourse about important matters. In down from heaven, playwright Colleen Wagner has taken on a pandemic and a food shortage exacerbated by serious class issues. The once wealthy and infinitely “civilized” Braumbach family is quarantined in their [...]

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Challenging Canadian Clichés

Letter Two, Espace Libre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
02.09.2009

I did not know the real meaning of tour de force until I caught Tony Nardi’s Letter Two at Espace Libre. Nardi has transformed letters – written in reaction to the stereotypical portrayal of Italian-Canadian characters in a Canadian TV series, and reviews of a production of a Goldoni play that perpetuated clichés about commedia [...]

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