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STAGE>>by Dan Lalande
In show business, particularly in a market the size of Ottawa’s, survival is spelled, “versatility.” One-trick ponies are the industry’s road kill; to the multi-talented go the spoils ― er, jobs. And nobody is busier these days than the local theatre community’s jack-of-all-trades, David Whiteley.
STAGE>>by Holly Gordon
Monday night was a full one for Fringe. Missing a chance to get tickets to the sold-out opening of Fruitcake: Ten Commandments from the Psyche Ward, I just managed to get tickets to the similarly full Every Story Ever Told and Complex Numbers. The rest of the week is going to warrant stake-outs, it seems ― you’ve been forewarned.
STAGE>>by Holly Gordon
Roller Derby Saved My Soul, Broken Turtle Productions
Meet Amy: a silver shoe-wearing, Buffy the Vampire Slayer-loving customer support assistant who enjoys plunking herself down with a bowl of (stale) popcorn and a wooden stake, quoting Buffy (in this case, season seven’s Touched as it plays over the studio speakers). Digging popcorn kernels out of her teeth with the otherwise useless stake, Amy absentmindedly wipes the kernel off of the pointy piece of wood and onto her pink-skirted knee.
“Vampire slaying would be a difficult career move,” she says.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, STAGE>>By Holly Gordon
TODAY'S SURE THING, STAGE>>by Maria Feldman
It’s a new era in dance ― marked by guttural movements, rapacious beats and intrepid performers. Mark these words: the urban dance movement is spreading, and is revolutionizing the traditional dance forms standing in its way.
TODAY'S SURE THING, STAGE>>by Holly Gordon
If there’s one thing Evolution Theatre’s proven both with February’s Little Martyrs and with this month’s The Lavender Railroad, it’s that the theatre company is not afraid to push the limits.
STAGE>>by Holly Gordon
The trailer suggests something racy. Making his hazy way around an evening party Michael Mancini, dressed up in a modern-day suit and playing Hamlet, feels alienated; waking up topless the next morning beside an unnamed blonde, Hamlet opens his eyes to a knocking at his door. Horatio (Scott Angus Wilson) enters, and haltingly says, “The king.”
TODAY'S SURE THING, STAGE>>by Holly Gordon
When the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s artistic director, André Lewis, approached Shawn Hounsell to do a version of Alice in Wonderland for the dance company, the freelance choreographer had one caveat.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE, STAGE>>by Sara Duplancic
If you enjoy murder mysteries with British sensibilities (and slightly lacking in sense), Deliver us from Evil is your cup of tea. Directed skillfully by Ottawa Little Theatre veteran Sarah Hearn, the show proves a good alternative to the PBS and TVO mystery show line-up — but breaks no new theatrical ground.
TODAY'S SURE THING, STAGE>>by Allan Wigney
It begins, not unlike Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ finest song, with an innocent question: “So what do you think of her?”
WIGBUBBLES>>by Allan Wigney
In less than two weeks, Canadians by the handful will voice a desire for what looks to be something akin to the status quo. Democracy in action, folks. And as the election approaches, it seems issues — like, you know, corruption and contempt and such — are eliciting yawns from the populace. Less so, a photo of Stephen Harper and the Nickelback guy — perhaps the most polarizing public personalities in the country.
Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet uses video projection design to send its dancers down the rabbit hole.
Local photographer Joy Kardish preserves, and reveals, all-but-forgotten spaces.
The 2011 visual and media arts laureates speak for themselves at the National Gallery group exhibition.
The renowned Japanese percussion ensemble, celebrating its 30th year, comes to the NAC March 7.
