VIDEO
Imagine Montréal, by Marianne Ackerman, Blue Metropolis
by Leila Marshy
10.05.2011
10 actors. 25 writers. 1 night in Montréal. The worlds of fiction, theatre, music – and now film – overlapped in Marianne Ackerman’s Imagine Montréal. Staged for the second time on at the Blue Metropolis, the words were culled from over two dozen works published since 2000. All set in Montreal, it portrays a city about to fall and about to fly. A contradiction we know all too well.
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FESTIVAL CITY
BLOGGING THE BLUE MET
by Veena Gokhale
01.05.2011
Even as I was flitting about, I had an acute sense of all the simultaneous events I was missing. It was a fitting frame of mind for encountering Gore Vidal, in flesh. Described as a supernova by interviewer Michael Enright (CBC), he remains witty, articulate and iconoclastic, reminding us that all things must pass (he is 85).
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