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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 22:29 |
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Necessary Angel's Hamlet
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“To be, or not to be – that is the question.”
Most people, if they have seen a production of Hamlet, have witnessed this soliloquy.
Here is one they likely have not witnessed: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, pulls a plastic bag over his tousled black hair, binds it tight with duct tape, and for the next 60 seconds sits still as a statue, no attempts made to remove the obstruction. Being witness to an onstage suicide attempt is a very intense and disturbing experience.
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Written by Catherine Kustanczy
Friday, 30 October 2009 20:36 |
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Cabaret series salutes poet and poetry through song
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In choosing to adapt the works of poets for the stage, ee cummings isn’t the first name that comes to mind. In fact, the American poet’s work, considered impenetrable and outright weird by many, is one of the writers whose work might be avoided. And yet Toronto-based actor/musician Mike Ross is diving headlong into the challenge, presenting an evening of works inspired by cummings’ canon.
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Written by Catherine Kustanczy
Friday, 30 October 2009 20:28 |
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The Young Centre Rocks With Andrew and Stevie
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The hardest thing for Andrew Craig was choosing. “That alone caused sleepless nights,” he admits.
The Canadian musician and host of CBC Radio’s Canada Live is referring to the job of putting together a tribute to R&B legend Stevie Wonder. Featured as part of the Canwest Cabaret series happening at the Young Centre October 29th through November 1st, Craig says “ultimately taking on the catalogue of someone as prolific as Stevie Wonder begins with the decision about what approach to take.”
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Written by Catherine Kustanczy
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:15 |
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Lepage Flies with The Nightingale
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The musical rebel of his day, Igor Stravinsky has never endeared those who crave traditional melodic lines. His music is raucous, rough, and challenging –not the kind of thing you can hum or whistle to. His 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring caused a riot at its premiere, and when his adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fable The Nightingale premiered in 1908, he placed the singers down in the orchestra pit and put an assortment of tumblers and dancers onstage instead. His infamous statement, that “music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all” has been assessed and analyzed, criticized and derided, and yet the influence of Stravinsky’s modern, complex music, cannot be over-emphasized. But he isn’t exactly the guy you turn on when you want some comforting sounds.
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Written by Sebastian Frye
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 21:13 |
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Stratford Festival - Ever Yours, Oscar
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In the hands of both the greatest authors and the most stylistically impoverished layman, letter writing can prove more revealing of one's personality than everyday conversation. A reader of letters has the opportunity to ponder the intricacies of a subtle turn of phrase, or the opportunity to fall asleep at a meandering bunch of words without a point. To read Oscar Wilde's letters is to not only be smitten by the command of his wit and his effortlessness of tone, but to glimpse the unpolished human being Wilde was. Humane, amorous and humble was Wilde torn away from the flamboyant character he is commonly portrayed as.
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