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marianne ackerman

BLUE MET

Blue Notes

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Turning another page on Blue Met 2012

by Marianne Ackerman
24.04.2012

A literary long weekend with ninety-one events means there will be many possible festivals, depending on your choices. My best experiences at the 14th edition of Blue Metropolis happened along side-roads.

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NOTEBOOK

The Antagonist

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Marianne Ackerman's profile of Donovan King in Maisonneuve Magazine

by Marianne Ackerman
10.04.2012

Donovan King cuts an imposing figure as he parades the streets of Old Montreal on summer nights. Six feet tall and dressed in a top hat and long black overcoat, his booming baritone inflected by a mock-Transylvanian accent.

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NOTEBOOK

mRb Spring Issue

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Rover writers in the spring issue of the mRb

by Marianne Ackerman
27.03.2012

Why write for Rover? Certainly not for the money (so far there is none), although money often follows, along with advancement on the Montreal arts scene. Proof? Check out the new spring issue of mRb, in bookstores, cafés and theatre lobbies now.

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THEATRE

Letter from Chicago

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Visiting the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

by Marianne Ackerman
16.01.2012

The age of national culture is over. Forget about tired nation-states, their ineffective governments and surly citizens. Great art is to be found in cities with strong flavours. At the top of my list is Chicago, just over an hour from Toronto by air, where a vibrant theatre scene is offering the best play I’ve seen in years.

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STAGE

Slicing and Dicey

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Dave St. Pierre, Le cycle de la boucherie, at Théâtre La Chapelle, through December 17

by Marianne Ackerman
13.12.2011

If Vincent Van Gogh were alive and creating dance theatre in Montreal, he might well make work like Dave St. Pierre’s. Both artists display sure flashes of genius embedded in frantic energy, and a voracious will focused unflinchingly on the creation of terrible beauty.

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VIDEO

Art for Art’s Sake

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Rover's Art Fair, December 1-4

by Leila Marshy
06.12.2011

You came to the party. You saw the art. Now catch the video.

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VIDEO

Mashup Montréal

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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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NOTEBOOK

Yes Size Counts

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Supporting CanLit

by Marianne Ackerman
14.03.2011

Should Canadian publishers be allowed to sell off equity in search of capital? Instinctively, those of us who remember the invention of CanLit will say “No Way.” John Barber’s piece in The Globe and Mail makes a strong argument to the contrary. The total book market in Canada is a $2.8-million a year business, some [...]

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NOTEBOOK

Serious Bites

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Paris Review

by Marianne Ackerman
28.02.2011

In case you think there is no future for serious content-driven publications in this slick, bite-sized era, take a look at what’s happening at the Paris Review. Mind you, according to the Sunday Times, the new 37-yr-old publisher’s main business strategy is based on his presence at many important parties. More power to Lorin Stein. [...]

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CRITICAL I

Giller Gong Show

Giller Prize

by Marianne Ackerman
12.11.2010

Opening night reception of Don Quixote at the Centaur, a tiny ubiquitous woman accosts me with the dread question: “Did you catch the Giller Awards on TV?” Think about it Donna: how likely is it that I—one of the many unnamed losers—would spend that evening in virtual Toronto?

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NOTEBOOK

Summer Duties & Bookish Intentions

by Marianne Ackerman
08.09.2010

Summer over, and I’ve opened not one of the books I so brazenly vowed (in public!) to read. Up to my ears in fixing up the farm house in which my five siblings and I were raised, none of the titles I packed seemed to make sense. They might have been written in Greek.

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THEATRE

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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NOTEBOOK

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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THEATRE

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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NOTEBOOK

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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