Theatre in London

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Training, Classes and Camps 58 67
Reviews 5 9
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The Twiddle Plays

Reviewed by , May 17, 2012

It’s funny how a simple morality play, a form as old as medieval times, can take on a fresh new flavour with some creativity and irreverent wit. This play illustrates that point with a fun comedy that skewers a would-be smarmy plot with a sincere sense of fun.

In a boarding house, the devilish Nicholas M. Nicholas (Greg Mizon) comes to tempt the boarders, but meets the obnoxiously domineering Miss Twiddle (Trish West). Repulsed by this intolerable harridan, he and his assistant (Tom …

Enchanted April

Reviewed by , May 11, 2012

To understand what you are and where you can be, a change of scenery can help. This play proves that adage beautifully with a charming story of four women who find renewal and a mutual human connection at an Italian castle in one special month.

In 1922 Britain, a young woman named Lotty (Lori Fellner), feeling bored in the drabness of London in winter, is inspired by an advertisement about an Italian castle for rent from one Anthony Wilding (Chris …

Mambo Italiano

Reviewed by , May 6, 2012

Coming out of the closet is still often a tough thing to do, but it can be even more difficult in a culture of family clannishness and patriarchal religiosity like Italian culture. This play is a fun coming out comedic drama about identity and community where the truth can be the most painful secret of all.

In Montreal, Angelo Barbieri (Nick D’Oria) and his boyfriend, Nino Paventi (John McKenzie), are an Italian–Canadian gay couple with overbearing parents. At his sister Anna’s (Aleen Hopkins) prodding, Angelo comes out to his parents, Gino (Tim …

Three in the Back, Two in the Head

Reviewed by , April 24, 2012

The sciences relating to munitions are fraught with moral and political ambiguities, both in concept and in the political and diplomatic implications inextricably linked to them. This play manages to capture that intriguing complexity in a fictionalized version of the fate of renegade weapons engineer, Gerald Bull, but that kind of nuance is almost lost amid some terrible acting.

Paul Jackson (Justin Peter Quesnelle), the son of an assassinated weapons engineer, Donald Jackson (Jim Schaefer), comes to CIA bureaucrat Doyle (Rod Keith) to get some help for redress for his father’s murder. What follows …

Hair

Reviewed by , April 16, 2012

The Age of Aquarius

Suede vests with long fringe, head bands, psychedelic colours, bell-bottoms with bandanas tied at the knees, huge Afros, and long hair… Hair. The costumes and wigs at the Grand Theatre’s production of Hair will transport anyone old enough to recall right back to the sixties.

I can remember when long hair was considered the root of all evil: some of my male classmates in high school were kicked out because their hair touched their shoulders, and they were told they couldn’t return to class until they had gone to the barber. …