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Agog about Gollywog

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Gollywog, by Bonnie Farmer, Black Theatre Workshop

by Beverly Akerman
20.02.2012

Though decades separate Bonnie Farmer’s two plays, her new Gollywog has the makings of a hit. Born in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Farmer came to Montreal at the age of two when her mother took a job as a cook in a convent. The family only lived there a year or so, Farmer explains. “They weren’t expecting a cook with a baby in tow. Our room was right off the kitchen and I kept getting into things. It was dangerous. I remember these beautiful marble floors. I remember seeing the nuns in their pyjamas.”

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Chekhov for Beginners

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Dawson College production of Chekhov's Three Sisters shows panache in spite of the challenges

by Natalie G.
01.02.2012

The Three Sisters, Chekov’s simmering drama about an army general’s family trapped in a provincial Russian town at the end of the nineteenth century, is brought to the stage by Dawsons College’s professional theatre program.

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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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Brilliant Stage Noir

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Requiem pour un trompettiste, at Espace Libre

by Alex Woolcott
11.01.2012

A criminally clever coup de théâtre, Claude Guilmain’s Requiem pour un trompettiste manages the amazing feat of being both an homage to film noir and a timely expose on corruption in politics. And all of it is couched in an intricate technical dance of music, dialogue and deft timing.

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That Fuzzy Feeling

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Reviewing Broadway’s beloved puppet show, Avenue Q

by James Gartler
17.12.2011

With the holiday season finally in full swing, many Montrealers are driving down to the Big Apple for a little slice of yuletide escapism.  If taking in a musical is at the top of your itinerary, Rover’s got you covered with this look at one of Broadway’s best…the beloved Avenue Q.

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This Cat Speaks Hyena

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Montreal performance artist Catherine Kidd gives audiences a taste of the wild(ly imaginative) kingdom in her top-notch solo production Hyena Subpoena

by Anna Fuerstenberg
27.10.2011

You can’t help but admire Catherine Kidd. Her ability to create performance art and deliver it in a most astonishing way is magical. Hyenas are generally familiar to most, but it may be fair to say that the particulars of their (mythical) hermaphroditic outlaw status in the animal kingdom have never been explained or performed [...]

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Naughty Bits and Pieces

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REVIEW: Despite shortcomings, Tim Rice's Toronto-based Chess: The Musical still thrills in places

by James Gartler
05.10.2011

Montreal may be a city overflowing with options when it comes to art and entertainment, but sometimes you just have to see what else is out there. To that end, this intrepid Rover reporter traveled to neighbouring Toronto to take in the sights, beginning with Chess: The Musical, fresh from a ten-month run in the [...]

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Woods, Wit and Whimsy

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AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare in the Park

by Mélanie Grondin
04.08.2009

For their 21st season of Shakespeare in the Park, Repercussion Theatre chose a play not as well known as Romeo and Juliet or Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it contains all any Bard lover could want: feuding families, exile, a forest, women disguised as men, knaves and fools, music, dancing and brilliant soliloquies (including “The world’s [...]

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