Life is full of “what if”s: what if I don’t go to school and become a musician? What if the store I work at closes? What if the guy from across the street wants to do more than flirt? What if my husband gets diagnosed with a terminal disease? Jill Daum’s Forget About Tomorrow, beautifully…
Most parents dread becoming empty-nesters, though few imagine that it’ll happen overnight. Jacob and Mary Mercer are certainly shocked when it happens to them. David French’s Leaving Home, directed by Jake Planinc, is a roller coaster of emotions contained within a couple of rooms in the Mercer home. Uniquely staged and featuring an excellent cast,…
What happens when you’ve had enough? You’re at the end of your rope and you just can’t take another bad thing happening in your life? Do you cry, scream, or both? Or do you try to set the grocery store you were just fired from on fire, like Beth. There is Violence and There is…
Six women - three Muslim, three Hindu, a truck, and a country fractured by the actions of foreigners. Anusree Roy’s heartbreaking yet hopeful play Trident Moon is piercing look at Partition and the harm it caused families as India fought for independence. Beautifully directed by Nina Lee Aquino, this thought provoking story and its powerful…
Hummed hymns are the first sounds to grace our ears as the lights come up on a quaint convenience store. Mr. Kim is getting ready to start his day, but he certainly doesn’t know how this day is going to end. Written by Ins Choi and directed by Weyni Mengesha, Kim’s Convenience is not only…
I was already a little too old for Elf on the Shelf when it made its startlingly popular debut on store shelves. However, based on Phil Rickaby’s Christmas horror play It Sees You When You’re Sleeping, that might not have been such a bad thing after all. Produced in association with everyone’s favourite spooky company…
How many birds can you save before you decide to save yourself? Jamie, who has a job clear cutting Nova Scotia’s bountiful forests, is far more preoccupied with the damage he’s doing to the environment than the damage that’s occurring in his own life. Bone Cage, written by Catherine Banks and directed by Cassidy Sadler,…
The last residential school in Canada closed in 1996; I started first grade that September, with no clue at all that these schools existed. Like most young Canadians, I didn’t learn about the full extent of the atrocities perpetrated against Indigenous peoples until well into my adult life, and plays like Jani Lauzon and Kaitlin…
“Again?” The first line of George F. Walker’s unpublished work Fierce fully embodies everything that we’re about to witness in a single word. Moss Theatre Collective’s inaugural production is an intense two-hander which delves into the lives of a recently-released inmate and her psychiatrist as they use some...unconventional methods to open up and gain each…
What does it mean to be “unwanted?” To be cast aside, to be unnecessary, to be forgotten? The young women we meet in George F. Walker’s Girls Unwanted have been made to feel that way their whole lives, so when the police start calling about a murder, everyone has their back against the wall. The…
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