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- Jack Teiwes
A good French farce ticks away in perfect order like a finely crafted Swiss watch… even if it may seem by the halfway mark like someone threw this watch down a flight of stars and then started to bludgeon it with a sledgehammer.
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If you have not attended a Bell Shakespeare production before, or haven’t seen one in a while, this rendition of one of the Bard’s most popular plays is a good example of their bread-and-butter staples of modern popular staging.
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- Jack Teiwes
From the acclaimed and recently departed Irish playwright Brian Friel comes this engrossing play starring three of our stage’s finest actors.
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- Richard Cotter
Stephen Carleton’s play carries a colourful name, The Turquoise Elephant, but it is the darkest of comedies, coal black, a fatalistic farce about embracing and claiming catastrophic climate change as a grotesque status symbol.
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- Richard Cotter
Like much of Fassbinder’s writing, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is anchored in artifice, stylization and realism, a theatrical cocktail that needs to be carefully concocted for the mix to work.
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- Richard Cotter
Chaotic, rambunctious, percussive and provocative, MARAT/SADE is a theatrical bull untethered and let loose among political and economic sacred cows and a whole herd of social injustice.
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- Jack Teiwes
There is not a false note in this entire enterprise, from script to scenery, and from every other talented actor in between.
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