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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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THEATRE

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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THEATRE

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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THEATRE

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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THEATRE

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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THEATRE

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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THEATRE

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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