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Agog about Gollywog

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Gollywog, by Bonnie Farmer, Black Theatre Workshop

by Beverly Akerman
20.02.2012

Though decades separate Bonnie Farmer’s two plays, her new Gollywog has the makings of a hit. Born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Farmer came to Montreal at the age of two when her mother took a job as a cook in a convent. The family only lived there a year or so, Farmer explains. “They weren’t expecting a cook with a baby in tow. Our room was right off the kitchen and I kept getting into things. It was dangerous. I remember these beautiful marble floors. I remember seeing the nuns in their pyjamas.”

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Tyrone Gets Off the Couch

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Portrait of Tyrone Benskin, ELAN

by Leila Marshy
30.05.2011

One of the constituencies trounced by fresh NDP blood was Jeanne-Le Ber – the riding that includes St Henri, Point St Charles, Little Burgundy and Cote St Paul. Liza Frulla made her career here; more recently it was Bloc territory, held by Thierry St Cyr. But the orange crush rolled in and now it belongs to Tyrone Benskin, the man formerly known as the director of the Black Theatre Workshop.

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Independents’ Night

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Montreal Fall Theatre Season

by Alex Woolcott
15.09.2010

It was standing room only at Mainline Theatre on Monday night when the English theatre community turned out to help launch its fall season. First done five years ago under the header of MAST (Montreal’s Alternate Season of Theatre), the season launch has now been revived into what promoters are promising to be a quarterly [...]

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THEATRE

Memory’s Fault Lines

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Swan Song of Maria, Black Theatre Workshop

by Marc Seltzer
20.11.2009

My favourite moments in Swan Song of Maria were watching Joe, played by Joel Miller, tenderly support his wife, Jillian (Ranee Lee), through her struggle with insecurity and mental decline. The couple has spent a lifetime together, and even the great conflicts and loss they face are subsumed within the container of their love and [...]

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