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Author Archives: Burke Campbell
CATS IN BOOTS FOR CHRISTMAS
CATS IN BOOTS AT CHRISTMAS For the past several years, there has been a Christmas season’s pantomime at the Red Sandcastle Theatre. Each year, Jane A. Shields and Rosemary Doyle write a script, which features the recurring character of the … Continue reading
THE CENOTAPH PROJECT
THE CENOTAPH PROJECT “And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead…” — T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. History records facts, dates, and events. Individuals are rarely noted, except on monuments to the dead, … Continue reading
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SEX T-REX ROARS
SEX T-REX ROARS IN CRIME AFTER CRIME (AFTER CRIME) Toronto theatre team scores in a phenomenal parody of crime film genres. Period genres in the movies carry markings as distinct as leopard spots. For example, in film noir of the … Continue reading
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Tagged comedy, commercial theater, drama, hit show, parody, SEX T-Rex, Theater
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CHRISTMAS PANTO ROCKS SANDCASTLE
RED SANDCASTLE launches the New Year with theatrical fireworks! A pantomime or panto is a kind of musical comedy, developed in England and performed during Christmas and New Years. Every year, Red Sandcastle Theatre premieres a newly-minted holiday pantomime. Originally, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McGillvray, cats, Deborah Ann Frankel, entertainment, Farid Yazdani, humor, Jackie English, Jane Shields, Linette Doherty, Matthew Donovan, Red Sandcastle Theatre, Rosemary Doyle, Rosie Callaghan, Taran Beaty
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UNHOLY FINDS A PERFECT SETTING
UNHOLY FINDS A PERFECT SETTING AT ZOOMERHALL UNHOLY is a play about whether or not today’s women need religion. Primarily this is because most organized religions, dominated by men, have institutionalized virulent misogyny. These religions have mostly failed to promote … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, humour, Media, theatre
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Triumphal Chariot
Chariots of Fire has opened in London, Ontario. It’s a stage version of the early 1980s Academy Award winning film of the same name. The original stage adaptation had its premiere in London, England in 2012, and now, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 3M Corporation, Chariots of Fire, David Michael Moote, Dennis Garnhum, entertainment, music, The Grand Theatre
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DEFINITIVE PRODUCTION OF A CLASSIC
“After watching several productions of this classic drama across a lifetime, for me, the Grand Theatre’s production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie is definitive.” – Burke Campbell Tennessee Williams’ semi-autobiographical drama, The Glass Menagerie, premiered in 1944, nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Crowther, Amy Keating, Christopher Stanton, Dennis Garnhum, London, McManus Stage, Megan Watson, Nick Blais, Ontario, Sarah Orenstein, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tennessee Williams, The Grand Theatre
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SEX AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
First produced at the Stratford Festival, and written by Hannah Moscovitch, BUNNY is a play about a girl, Sorrell, nicknamed “Bunny”. Bunny grows up, discovers puberty, and takes to sex like a rabbit takes to carrots. Bunny enjoys a large … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, comedy, drama, Maev Beaty, Matthew Edison, Tarragon Theatre, theatre, Toronto
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NOAH REID’S HAMLET
Tarragon Theatre’s presentation of Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is not for purists. Those looking for a standard-issue staging of the Bard will freak at this production. This show is bare bones and the stage is mostly stripped, with only a row … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Hamlet, Jesse LaVercombe, musical, Noah Reid, Ontario, Richard Rose, Shakespeare, Tarragon Theatre, theatre, tourism
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A TIMELY STORY
The Grand Theatre in London, Ontario, is one of the most beautiful in the country. Its interior is an architectural gem of the Victorian era, with a vast, cosy stage that provides the ideal frame for one … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Benedict Campbell, Charles Dickens, David Michael Moote, Dennis Garnhum, humor, humour, London, Ontario, The Grand Theatre, Theater, theatre
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