Ensemble Theatre, September 2 Can I speak off the record? The problem, you see, is that this is the sort of show at which we beard-tugging critics are supposed to sneer; to denounce its modest artistic ambitions; lampoon its broad appeal. But, between you and me, it’s actually rather fun.…
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Wharf 1 Theatre, September 1 Is morality an absolute or is it coloured by perspective, whether of culture, power, religion, wealth or passage of time? Is it merely a matter of convenience? What of retribution? In his exceptional 1990 play Ariel Dorfman shuns the obvious and obliges us to question…
Belvoir Downstairs Theatre, August 29 Verdi’s Violetta got off lightly. She merely died of consumption at the end of his La Traviata. The Violetta in this reinvention by Sisters Grimm (Ash Flanders and Declan Greene) dies the much slower and more horrible death of struggling to hold an audience. In…