Tag Archives: Review
Theatre review: Scarborough
Dear Dad Teacher-pupil sexual affairs may be one of the most frowned-upon social improprieties, but they offer rich fodder for dramatists to explore. While there is often little room for controversy here — people are uniformly vociferous in their disgust … Continue reading
Theatre review: How I Learned To Drive
Dear Dad We may feel we have heard and read enough about pedophilia, especially of late, to last us a lifetime. Yet here is a revival of a 1997 award-winning play by American playwright Paula Vogel that again explores this disturbing subject. But rather than … Continue reading
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
Dear Dad I first read Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro as part of the prescribed text for Literature when I was in Secondary Three (or Grade Nine). It did not leave much of an impression; after the exams, I only remembered … Continue reading
Theatre review: Blue/Orange
Dear Dad I recollect commenting on this blog — incidentally in a review of another Mockingbird Theatre production — that we should not gasp at abhorrent attitudes halfway round the globe, but instead examine our own. Now the Theatre’s brilliant staging of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange … Continue reading
Book review: The White Tiger
Dear Dad “Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per cent to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that … Continue reading
Theatre review: Hatched 2012
Dear Dad When a theatre cast or crew member greets the audience with an apology for a failed sound system, it would usually send ripples of dismay around the room. For Hatched 2012, though, it appeals to our understanding of … Continue reading
Theatre review: Savage In Limbo
Dear Dad When one finds oneself on the wrong side of 30, a miasma of panic and discontentment often creeps in, shrouding one’s sense of identity, unleashing a visceral impulse to act, for change, before time runs out — so … Continue reading
Theatre review: Love Letters
Dear Dad If you are going to stage a play about first loves, first blushes, and Love Letters, and want to add a touch of class to the mood, do it in the Fairfax Studio. The intimate confines of this … Continue reading
Theatre review: The Laramie Project
Dear Dad When we encounter the town of Laramie in Wyoming, America, Matthew Shepard has already died. It is November 1998. And the young 21-year-old homosexual was kidnapped, tied to a fence, savagely beaten, and left to languish by two local boys four … Continue reading
Theatre review: Kiss Them All Soundly
Dear Dad Whether nursery rhymes had been written for pure entertainment – or whether they contain hidden meanings or origins — has been a matter of much debate for several centuries. And has remained rather indeterminate up to the present day. Jason Cavanagh, … Continue reading
