How can Factory Theatre’s World Premiere of Amy Lee Lavoie’s, Stopheart, a play about growing up in a South Porcupine, Ontario possibly resonate in a vast, multi-cultural metropolis like Toronto? We sat down with Lavoie and Garret C. Smith (who plays the character, Bear) to find out.
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Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, True West, might be compared to Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men. Both plays explore, in part, the waning of the American West.
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We recently had the chance to sit down with Brimful of Asha stars Ravi and Asha Jain.
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There is an art to the building up of suspense. Soulpepper’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead artfully employs pace and comedic timing to make this maxim true.
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What do you get if you mix a dash of Charlie Chaplin, a soupçon of Jacques Lecoq, a healthy helping of Abbot and Costello, and to top it all off, a dollop of Marcel Marceau? The answer is clear: the Dora Award Winning play, SPENT, now playing from February 12-22nd at the Young Centre for the [...]
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This review of A Brimful of Asha is Richard and Jennifer Hood's second outing as a father-daughter review team, here on Spotlight Toronto. Their first was about Soulpepper's production of Endgame.
Richard Hood: I first met Ravi Jain, a precocious high-school student at Upper Canada College, in 1997. I [...]
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In 1999, when Soulpepper mounted its first, sensational production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, my dad and I went to see the show. I was still in high school at the time and I remember thinking, afterwards that Samuel Beckett’s mind must be a terrifying place. I also remember Diego Matamoros as Clov; I remember [...]
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