Coming out of the closet is still often a tough thing to do, but it can be even more difficult in a culture of family clannishness and patriarchal religiosity like Italian culture. This play is a fun coming out comedic drama about identity and community where the truth can be the most painful secret of all.
In Montreal, Angelo Barbieri (Nick D’Oria) and his boyfriend, Nino Paventi (John McKenzie), are an Italian–Canadian gay couple with overbearing parents. At his sister Anna’s (Aleen Hopkins) prodding, Angelo comes out to his parents, Gino (Tim …
The sciences relating to munitions are fraught with moral and political ambiguities, both in concept and in the political and diplomatic implications inextricably linked to them. This play manages to capture that intriguing complexity in a fictionalized version of the fate of renegade weapons engineer, Gerald Bull, but that kind of nuance is almost lost amid some terrible acting.
Paul Jackson (Justin Peter Quesnelle), the son of an assassinated weapons engineer, Donald Jackson (Jim Schaefer), comes to CIA bureaucrat Doyle (Rod Keith) to get some help for redress for his father’s murder. What follows …
Suede vests with long fringe, head bands, psychedelic colours, bell-bottoms with bandanas tied at the knees, huge Afros, and long hair… Hair. The costumes and wigs at the Grand Theatre’s production of Hair will transport anyone old enough to recall right back to the sixties.
I can remember when long hair was considered the root of all evil: some of my male classmates in high school were kicked out because their hair touched their shoulders, and they were told they couldn’t return to class until they had gone to the barber. …
Shaking up a life can be a daring thing, with consequences you might not expect for friends with their own agendas. This play illustrates that with a fun story that combines superb character play with inspired comedy, with just the right touch of suspense to spice up the plot.
In the 1890s, society women Annabella (Martha Zimmerman) and Lucy (Danika Barker) find themselves in a dispiriting rut, but writer Oscar Wilde (Jason Rip) decides to help. To give them new activities to explore, Wilde arranges for Lucy to join a …
If you love musical theatre, and you have a good sense of humour about being a musical theatre geek, you’ll enjoy The Drowsy Chaperone, now running at the Palace Theatre in London. An exceptionally good production for community theatre, this show spoofs the old genre of musicals.
An all-Canadian show, The Drowsy Chaperone has an interesting …
