Revolution is not a universal language
Dawson’s Daughters of the Revolution is a complex, political play Theatre reviews should be easy to read, easy…
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A spellbinding tribute to Leonard Cohen
Cohenites rejoice! Another year, and another tribute to Montreal’s legendary singer, poet, and novelist Leonard Cohen, is upon…
A night celebrating vaginas
The beginning of 2013 left many of us with a bitter taste in our mouths as millions watched…
The Irish have come to town
There’s nothing quite as Irish as a mistrust of the English, a drunk priest and a fiddle. Ordinarily,…
The Yellow Wallpaper’s Jane comes off the page
Jane enters the room and sits on the folding chair that’s been placed beside the bed they’ve created…
Double, double, toil and trouble
On the damp and gloomy moors of the Scottish highlands, generals Macbeth and Banquo are accosted by three…
Coming out of the cage
Apes think with their bellies and when freedom is out of reach, the only solution is to cease being ape. Kafka’s Ape is a captivating monologue about Red Peter, a man who tells the story of his life from apehood to humanhood.
Get ready to think pink!
Get ready Montreal because Elle Woods is coming to Lindsay Place Theatre. Running for two weekends, the West Island Student Theatre Association presents Legally Blonde: The Musical.
Who exactly is the barbarian?
Nudity, sex, violence and death all come together to provoke and thrill in this certainly not-safe-for-children theatrical adaptation of Nobel Prize winning South African author J.M. Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians.
Romeo and Juliet with guns, denim and high kicks
Take Romeo and Juliet and throw them into the violent, gang-ridden New York city streets of the 1950s and you have West Side Story. Oh, and throw a few songs in there while you’re at it.
A comedy that will leave you thinking
Despite the fact that You Can’t Take It With You is set in 1936, the production put together by this batch of third year students from Dawson’s theatre program still manages to strike a very modern chord with its audience.
A classic play comes to life at McGill Players’ Theatre
When you’ve forgotten that a world exists outside of the one created by the play, you know you’ve seen a good play. The Glass Menagerie, as presented by the Players’ Theatre of McGill University, is one such play.