The relationship of the sexes in even the most intellectual setting can be fraught with ambiguity and agendas, moral or otherwise. This play is a powerful story of one such battle of wills that declines to give easy answers to such a conflict.
A university professor, John (Andrew Pel), is meeting with a student, Carol (Micaela Collins), who is struggling with his course. Although distracted with frequent calls…
If you leave Walt Wingfield’s farm and drive across Persephone Township, you’ll head straight into Port Petunia and see Ed’s Garage along the lakeshore. At Ed’s Garage, you get much more than an oil change. If you’re lucky, Nick will offer you the Gold Package, where you get an oil change, a check up for your pick up truck, and…
About four years ago I wrote that “theatreinlondon, like theatre in London, is very much alive!” Today I want to breathe new life into the online incarnation with a public declaration of my until-now unstated goals and aims for Theatre in London.ca: in short, a manifesto.
Call for writers
For over a decade, Theatre in London.ca has been about and for the London theatre community. One of the goals I had when I assumed ownership…
[The following reviews are of plays performed on the second evening of the 2012 PlayWrights Cabaret. --TiL]
The Petting Zoo
By Monika Lee
In a time where government priorities for post-secondary academic institutions are getting out of whack, this play is hilariously prescient. In the plot, where some well meaning faculty try an unorthodox social experiment against the University’s governors’ wishes, its silly inspiration…
I don’t usually write end-of-year articles (notwithstanding that in 2011 I haven’t written much here at all). However, today’s local theatre in review article in the Free Press omitted almost any mention of London’s independent, school and community theatre productions, and that’s a real shame.
First, though, I do want to call out the Freeps’ inclusion of the Fringe Festival alongside the Grand and Stratford. It’s no secret that I think Fringe productions and…