By Peter Janes, August 25, 2010

Catharine Brickenden
The Brickenden Awards recently announced several changes to this year’s presentations and the registration procedures.
A new category, Outstanding Drama, has been added to the list of awards voted on by the core panel and members of the public. The previous Outstanding Youth Production has been split into two new awards, Outstanding Youth Drama and Outstanding Youth Musical, with both voted on by the youth panel and the public.
As previously announced, the touring…
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By Peter Janes, August 10, 2010
This episode of Inside the Arts: Theatre Edition was broadcast on August 3, 2010. In this show, both Jeff and Simon are in the studio to discuss upcoming shows, anonymity and online feedback, the value and impact of reviews, and the appeal of London’s recent Petite Nuit Blanche and environmental theatre shows. In the second half, Jeff talks about his ten-city tour of archy and mehitabel and Jayson McDonald…
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By Peter Janes, July 9, 2010
This episode of Inside the Arts: Theatre Edition was broadcast on July 6, 2010. In this show, Simon returns to talk with Justin Quesnelle, Anne Coughlan and Chris Kevill about Passionfool’s Fringe production of Daniel MacIvor’s Monster and their upcoming production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. In the second half the group discusses the transience and collaboration of theatrical performance, particularly as it relates to filming plays and…
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By Peter Janes, July 5, 2010

William Shakespeare
Every year since 1981, UWO’s English Department has mounted one of Shakespeare’s plays during the summer. The first UWO Summer Shakespeare production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was overseen by accomplished theatre director Kenneth Livingstone.
The thirty Summer Shakespeare shows, which have been nominated for ten Brickenden Awards since 2001, have included All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry V, Macbeth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy…
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Reviewed by Peter Janes, June 30, 2010
I originally posted the reviews below on the London Fringe Festival’s review/discussion board; because that forum is cleared every year, they’re included here for posterity.
Caroline intertwined
Clever show that will improve through the festival.
A series of vignettes and anticlimaxes that explore the ideas of self-identity and self-acceptance, ONEymoon has a lot of promise. It’s a clever idea and has a lot of the hallmarks that I’ve seen in Christel’s previous…
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