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Ars Poetica



by Anna Fuerstenberg

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What an interestingly inviting read on this mind muddled morning. Thanks! Coffee, Please?

– comment by Parker

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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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THEATRE

Les bourgeois, c’est comme les cochons

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Le Dindon, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde

by Mélanie Grondin
25.01.2012

Certains diront peut-être que le Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, en tant que « théâtre national », se doit d’être un théâtre sérieux où le drame a plus sa place que la comédie. Même les grands dramaturges de ce monde — de Shakespeare à Molière en passant par Corneille — ont écrit des comédies, et il est vrai [...]

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THEATRE

Never Say Die

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Ars Poetica at Infinitheatre, through February 12

by Alex Woolcott
20.01.2012

It’s a swing and a miss for Ars Poetica, the second play by Arthur Holden and the latest offering from Montreal’s Infinitheatre. Infinite can always be commended for exclusively producing new work by local writers. But this time around they’ve emerged with a weak and meandering comedy in desperate need of another draft.

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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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THEATRE

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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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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BOOKS

Enter the Dragon

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The Blue Dragon, by Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud, Illustrations by Fred Jourdain, House of Anansi Press

by Heather Leighton
27.11.2011

It will come as no surprise that world-renowned multimedia artist Robert Lepage has branched out into the realm of the graphic novel. But of course, not wanting to be hemmed in by a strict number of frames and pages, Lepage gave Quebec illustrator Fred Jourdain the opportunity not to simply make a graphic novel, but to create a graphic representation of Lepage and Marie Michaud’s The Blue Dragon.

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