by Lindsey | Apr 12, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama
Eitan Zimmerman, the protagonist in Wajdi Mouawad’s play Birds of a Kind, doesn’t believe that chance, fate, divine intervention, or “other such nonsense” (6) determine what happens in the universe. Yet when he meets the young woman Wahida, whom he will fall...
by Lindsey | Feb 5, 2021 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama, Theatre
Toronto playwright Kat Sandler explores the liminal space between the real and the fictional in two recently published plays Bang Bang and Mustard. In the former, she presents the story of a young playwright whose latest work of gritty social drama...
by Lindsey | Nov 20, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama
Hanna Moscovitch’s impressive beginning as a playwright with East of Berlin, The Russian Play, and Little One has not been fulfilled, or at best, fitfully so. With these plays, perhaps especially East of Berlin, she seemed capable of anything with her dramatic...
by prfire | Apr 5, 2019 | Book Reviews, Drama
The uses and abuses of science in playwriting: a review of Hannah Moscovitch’s play Infinity Hannah Moscovitch is an indie darling of Canadian theatre, and her Dora-winning play Infinity reaffirms her reputation as one of Canada’s brightest, most ambitious...
by prfire | Mar 9, 2016 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Drama
Clem Martini’s volume of one-act plays delivers what its title promises: Martini with a Twist. The latest and thirtieth in the important Prairie Play Series from NeWest Press is an attractively packaged and appropriately titled cocktail of a book full of...
by prfire | Feb 9, 2016 | Book Reviews, Drama
When I first encountered Canadian theatre, I was told a specific difficulty local practitioners faced was the lack of an “established” status for local playwrights to aspire to. It was explained that “lack of history” was to blame for the permanent condition of the...
