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Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

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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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Filmed Play Loses Direction

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The Tempest, DVD

by Anna Fuerstenberg
24.11.2010

The Tempest is believed by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place by using magic. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother [...]

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Samurai Master Gets Big Screen Treatment

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Kurosawa Retrospective, Cinema du Parc

by Dru Jeffries
10.08.2010

Earlier this year, Criterion released a lavish DVD box set including 25 films by celebrated Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to celebrate what would have been his hundredth birthday (he died in 1998). But, as cinephiles know, there’s nothing like seeing these films projected on a big screen. Enter Cinema du Parc, which is hosting a [...]

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Une pièce qui en vaut la chandelle

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L’Avare, Festival Juste pour rire

by Mélanie Grondin
09.07.2010

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment les gens réussissaient à voir une pièce de théâtre avant la venue de l’électricité? Shakespeare in Love de John Madden montre un théâtre à ciel ouvert où les acteurs tirent profit de la lumière du jour pour présenter leur pièce. Cyrano de Bergerac de Jean-Paul Rappeneau et Beaumarchais, l’insolent de [...]

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Postmodern Shakespearean Buzz

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The Roman Tragedies, National Monument

by Anna Fuerstenberg
29.05.2010

Hold on to your hat. There is not a single gizmon gimmick or technological buzz that is left out of this trilogy of plays based on Shakespeare’s Roman plays. There is a moment when Antony seems to be playing with an iPad. There are multiple screens onstage where actual news is being played to remind [...]

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That Haitian Play

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Macbeth, Segal Centre Studio

by Alex Woolcott
09.04.2010

It’s eerily appropriate that The Other Theatre sets a play so cursed that actors dare not speak its name in a country with a historic trend of bad luck. Now set in Haiti, the once Scottish Play has undergone a bit of surgery, leaving it leaner and meaner than its Elizabethan cousin.

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Double Bling Bang Bard

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The Comedy of Errors, Centaur Theatre

by Marianne Ackerman
10.03.2010

So here’s the situation: a stranger comes to town and finds himself mysteriously drawn into somebody else’s life-in-progress. Meanwhile, a guy who’s dug in and married money discovers himself locked out of the house and his calls bounced. Kafka or farce? Peter Hinton’s Comedy of Errors pursues both options.

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