Author Archives: Burke Campbell

About Burke Campbell

Photographer, Writer, Journalist, Dramatist.

MACBETH UNDER THE SKY

Posted on September 29, 2019

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a fable about how we hear what we like, until it’s too late. The drama is perhaps the Bard’s most concise, bloody; mysterious work. It’s a cogent study of how a person’s latent ambition is teased out … Continue reading →

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THE CENOTAPH PROJECT

Posted on July 21, 2019

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

Posted on March 15, 2019

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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THE SUDDEN RISE OF IMPRESSIVE TALENT

Posted on January 26, 2019

Iain Moggach: New Artistic Director at Theatre by the Bay, Barrie, Ontario In 2015, Iain Moggach was a theatre arts student at George Brown in Toronto, mostly centred on acting. But in 2018, only three years later, he would be … Continue reading →

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CHRISTMAS PANTO ROCKS SANDCASTLE

Posted on January 2, 2019

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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UNHOLY FINDS A PERFECT SETTING

Posted on November 29, 2018

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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STONER FARCE FOR THE AGES

Posted on July 21, 2018

Hit ‘stoner’ comedy takes off! FARCE ON A GRAND SCALE In January, 2004, the decent folk of Barrie, Ontario, had their innocence shattered. On a far-fetched tip, the police swarmed a huge building, once the site of the Molson’s brewery, … Continue reading →

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