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Everyone’s a Winner

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Even those who don’t get picked are at least guaranteed a good time at the newly expanded, now open to the public, and free-to-attend Montreal Fringe Festival Lottery

by Jamie O'Meara
13.11.2011

You can’t win if you don’t play, and so it is with the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival, which early this week holds its annual Fringe Lottery. The playing is on the part of the 150-or-so theatre, dance, comedy, music and other assorted performance arts companies who have thrown their names into the hat, hoping to [...]

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Just a Bit Too Little, a Bit Too Late

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REVIEW: The Segal Centre production of The Play’s the Thing has its heart in the right place, but hasn’t yet figured out where that place is

by Alex Woolcott
04.11.2011

A sparkling play is getting a workmanlike production over at the Segal Centre this month in the guise of the meta-theatrical farce The Play’s the Thing. Written by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár and adapted by P.G. Wodehouse, the production has all the ingredients for an infectious night: a silly premise full of witty one-liners presented [...]

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Le vieil homme et la Vénitienne

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Dans l’ombre d’Hemingway, Théâtre Jean-Duceppe

by Mélanie Grondin
02.11.2011

L’acteur et dramaturge Stéphane Brulotte aime s’imaginer la vie intime et non documentée des grandes personnalités. L’année dernière, nous avons vu Une partie avec l’Empereur au Théâtre Jean-Duceppe, une pièce qui nous a présenté un Napoléon emprisonné sur l’île d’Elbe et la cible d’un complot visant à l’assassiner.

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Translation Challenged?

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There is much to recommend the Talisman Theatre adaptation of Pierre Michel Tremblay's Coma Unplugged, but some of the more critical vital signs are absent

by Anna Fuerstenberg
25.10.2011

Once again Talisman Theatre has mounted an English production of a French play, this time Coma Unplugged. This time it’s a black comedy and therein lays the problem: The central idea that we are entering the mind of a man who has suffered a cerebral trauma and is in a coma gives playwright Pierre Michel [...]

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Freaks in the Forest

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An unlikely family grows in the woods of Northern Ontario in Alain Mercieca's new play Ogoki Nights Part Deux: Lifer

by Lora Mathis
22.10.2011

Ah, summer. The season of sunshine, mosquitoes, and….tree planting? For Alain Mercieca, this quintessentially Canadian activity defines summertime and is the subject of his newest play, Ogoki Nights Part Deux: Lifer. Lifer is the sequel to Mercieca’s first play, Ogoki Nights, which followed a group of tree planters in Northern Ontario. The sequel brings this [...]

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A Little Whimsy, a lot of Magic

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The Little Prince delights audiences of all ages

by Anna Fuerstenberg
18.10.2011

When my companion saw that a grown actor would play the alien Prince in Geordie Productions’ staging of The Little Prince, he shrugged his elegant Argentine shoulders. I was less sceptical because I had seen the preview, and knew that Daniel Brochu was magic onstage. His physicality, gestures, and his voice were all perfection. He [...]

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A Series of Unfortunate Relationships

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REVIEW: True Nature, Centaur Theatre

by Anna Fuerstenberg
12.10.2011

Paleontology is easy, comedy is hard. Colleen Curran knows how to write comedy, and Montreal audiences have had many opportunities to laugh until their toes curl because she has written memorable and fantastically funny plays. There are scenes in True Nature that reveal her comic genius; one is a rehearsal of a skit to be [...]

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Life Behind Bars

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Unfit For Bears, Zeitgeist Theatre Collective

by Laura Freitag
21.09.2011

In 1938, four years after the Prison for Women (P4W) was opened in Kingston, Ontario, the Archambault Royal Commission infamously described the prison as “unfit for bears.”  Zeitgeist Theatre Collective’s new piece, Unfit for Bears, is a harrowing piece of theatre which follows an eclectic group of inmates in P4W.

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More Praise for Equus

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Equus continues to astound audiences, thanks to Dan Jeanotte's haunting performance as Allan Strang

by Anna Fuerstenberg
19.09.2011

In 1976, on my way from Boulder Colorado to Montreal, I stopped in New York City to see Equus, and I remember with great clarity that at the intermission I could not breathe. The play had stolen all the oxygen in the theatre; it was that good. Douglas Campbell played the psychiatrist Dysart with enormous [...]

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Schwartz’s Secret Ingredients

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A look behind the musical before the final bows

by James Gartler
07.08.2011

A plate of smoked meat, two pieces of rye bread and a slice of pickle.  For over eighty years, Schwartz’s Deli has made it look so easy, but as Schwartz’s The Musical attests, it takes a delicate balance of ingredients to make a real crowd-pleaser. 

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The Best… and the Rest

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A lively list of misses and hits at this year's edition of the St-Ambroise Fringe Festival

by James Gartler
19.06.2011

With the Fringe fest ending today, it’s time we tally up those shows which proved themselves to be among the best of the fest… and those which were definitely in need of a revamp.  Brace yourselves for the final scores…

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Hopping and Pop-ing at Fringe

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The Montreal Fringe keeps ears, eyes and bellies satisfied

by Jake Freekin Smith
18.06.2011

What a wonderful day at the Fringe! If you aren’t out enjoying what is one of Montreal’s best festivals, then you might want to start. There’s only a few days left, so get in there while it’s hot! Seriously. Now. GO! Go see shows!

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Monologue Madness!

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One-person shows on the menu at the Fringe

by Jake Freekin Smith
16.06.2011

I saw not one, not two, not three, but four one person shows today. For those of you who have never done this (myself included until today), that is a LOT of monologuing in one day. If even one of the four shows had been subpar it might have been a really long day, but [...]

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Women on the Verge

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REVIEW: Daniel Veronese's El desarrollo de la civilización venidera ambitiously reimagines Ibsen at the Festival Transamérique

by Mike Lake
13.06.2011

To be honest, I hadn’t much hope for an adaptation of yet another play by a dead white guy. Surely there are others in much more urgent need of production. But perhaps the power of this play is, in fact, its familiarity.

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Aging Gracefully, in Sequins and Heels

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Gardenia, Festival TransAmériques

by Megan Stewart
03.06.2011

The curtain rises on nine businessmen, standing still on a raked stage. Then, you notice the heels. Suddenly, you wonder: businessmen?

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