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Please, Rock the Boat

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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 [...]

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New York Eats Cockroach

by Marianne Ackerman
20.11.2009

Those Americans, they really do harbour and lately can’t seem to hide their neurotic relationship with Canada. Witness the Sunday Times pan of Rawi Hage’s novel Cockroach. Here’s my theory: New York literati are so fearful of offending each other in important publications that, given a chance to tear into a Canadian, they go nuts.

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Anorexia Dramatosa

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Rabbit Rabbit, Infinitheatre

by Marianne Ackerman
14.11.2009

Stripped of the hullabaloo created by love, morality and taboo, what is the sexual act? A thirst-quenching transaction, the earth moves or it doesn’t. Money or some other currency changes hands. Amy Lee Lavoie’s play Rabbit Rabbit explores the brave new world of 21st century sexuality by way of familiar dramatic archetypes: a prostitute and [...]

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Hooked On Henry

by Marianne Ackerman
06.11.2009

Don’t expect to see me anywhere but in front of the TV Wednesday nights at 9. Michael Hirst’s brilliant historical romp The Tudors remains the hottest spot on the box and infinitely better than most of what the wide screen has to offer.

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Membership has its privileges

by Marianne Ackerman
04.09.2009

Rover’s ’09 Fall Season is set to go: down from heaven, a new play from Imago Theatre, Sweet Mother Logic’s CD launch at Sala Rossa and an art fest at Galerie Push.

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“Infinitely satisfying work of stunning proportions”

by Marianne Ackerman
01.08.2009

Recently, Blue Met founder and author Linda Leith sent me the following rave review of her memoir, Marrying Hungary. Leith and reviewer Judith Fitzgerald blog for the Globe and Mail’s on-line edition. You can read their literary notes at www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/in-other-words. To read what Fitzgerald had to say about Marrying Hungary …

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FYI Email Rage @ Ste-Catherine

by Marianne Ackerman
22.07.2009

Théâtre Ste Catherine producer Eric Amber caused an uproar with an off the cuff email reply to a francophone complaining that his publicity of English-language shows was carried out exclusively en anglais. La Presse misquoted. Le Devoir fumed. Here’s Amber’s reply, verbatim.

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Critical Reasons to Stay Home

by Marianne Ackerman
17.07.2009

In these, the dying days of empire, when decadence in art is so common as to be unremarkable, work that inspires vivid criticism deserves attention, even if it’s not great art. Case in point, Brüno.

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Everybody’s An Artist!

by Marianne Ackerman
11.07.2009

Amid the verbiage uttered over the current global economic meltdown (or cyclical dip, if you’re a classical optimist), nobody is talking about the real structural flaw in our capitalist existence: there just isn’t enough work to go around. In future, most people will have to be artists.

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