Double Play Review! Bang Bang & Mustard by Kat Sandler

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...

Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation by Curtis LeBlanc

by nicole | Aug 21, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Theatre

Probably everyone has experiences that they look back on and wonder why they acted in the way that they did. Maybe they sat by passively when they wished they had acted, or cried when they wished they had gotten angry, or got angry when they wished they had sat...

Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel (Kulilu Patki)

by prfire | Jan 16, 2020 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Theatre

In her introduction to Vera Manuel’s collection Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Plays, Emalene A. Manuel remembers the discussions she had with her sister Vera about the kind of storytelling they were creatingand developing with their theatre...

Indian Act: Residential School Plays, Ed. Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

by prfire | Jul 22, 2019 | All Reviews, Book Reviews, Theatre

In Indian Act: Residential School Plays, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (Ed.) calls the residential school system a “dark spectre” upon the Canadian landscape (pg. x) The system of residential schools that existed for 150 years until the last school closed in 1996 has...