When Farren Timoteo walks on stage as Salvatore Mantini in his white button-up collar shirt and his blue button-down sweater, there is this quiet space that I think only happens in live theatre, a time when the artist on stage in a solo show has everyone’s attention and everyone takes a collective breath. The audience […]
The Shakespeare Company is producing Richard III right now in the Vertigo Studio, and down the street at the Martha Cohen Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, in association with The Shakespeare Company and Hit & Myth Productions is producing Teenage Dick, a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s Richard III. It’s a lot of examination of the villainous […]
‘The reality is that we live in an anti-fat society.’ This is from the note in The F Word playbill from co-creators and performers Keshia Cheesman and Bianca Miranda. It captures in its totality what fat people experience each and every day. It’s a space where thinness is revered and considered the beauty standard, and […]