“Thank you for calling the New Bosford Question Centre. My name is Irving Irving...” Every call starts the same. But one day, Irving gets a query which will change the course of his life forever. Eric Woolfe’s latest creepy creation, Call Centre of Cthulhu pays homage to Lovecraft’s work while giving it the Eldritch treatment:…
Who are you drawn to? Is it people who look like you, or think like you? What about someone who’s charming or vivacious? Or maybe you’re drawn to those you think you can fix, those with “natural deficiencies”? Erin Shields’s To A Flame looks at the perils of being drawn in by someone who might…
On a dark and stormy night, six strangers arrive to a majestic mansion. But will they survive the night? Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, Sandy Rustin’s Clue is a hilarious murder mystery caper which brings the “classic detective game” to the stage. Directed by Wren Theatre’s artistic director Tatum Lee, Clue brings everything…
Spindle Collective is back to bring chills to your spine with their latest work, Síofra. Natalia Bushnik and Kathleen Welch are the creative minds behind SAMCA, Síofra, and the forthcoming SpilleHOLLE. I get to ask them about these shows, about their process, and what audiences can expect from Síofra. Natalia Bushnik and Kathleen Welch 1.…
The sound of cicadas singing is one of the hallmarks of summer; that chirring can be heard night and day, sometimes at seemingly unbelievable volumes considering they’re insects. You can especially tell the years where the cycles have linked, and the alien-looking creatures cover the trees...or maybe even swarm your home near Trinity Bellwoods Park.…
Come in from the cold to the Red Sandcastle Theatre for a hot night of debauchery, dirty deeds, and death. Eldritch Theatre’s Night at the Grand Guignol, written and directed by Eldritch’s Artistic Director Eric Woolfe, revives a piece of theatrical history with its own unique twist. Fraught with feverish fables, feisty femmes fatale, and…
These early sunsets and dark nights seem to be lending themselves to stories of the strange and spectral. To add to this eerie time of year, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, in association with Crow’s Theatre, is bringing the haunting tales of Pu Songling, a prolific writer of the Qing Dynasty, to the stage at Crow’s. Pu Songling’s…
As I bundled myself up on one of the coldest nights I can recall, I began to understand why they call this time of year the dead of winter: the frigid air pierced through every layer of fabric I had on straight to my bones as I made my way to one of my favourite…
The development of AI feels like it’s been happening at a break-neck speed with more and more new information being released all the time. What most folks forget is that the more we use the internet, and the more we’re forced to interact with AI, the more it learns about us. This eerie mutual learning…
“Like dead, dead?” “Yes.” “Proper dead, not living dead?” “Not living dead, yes.” “Are you sure?” How can they be sure? Did anyone see him, or was the vodka playing tricks with their eyes? Dennis Kelly’s disturbing and haunting DNA, directed by Erik Richards, is a story of a group of young people facing a…
