Alberta Theatre Projects’ production of Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced is quiet. It gets under your skin. It’s uncomfortable and charged. The cast is talented and their performances are nuanced but the play could go deeper. It brushes on deep rooted anger and racism but once it gets interesting the play seems to turn away from the […]
Alberta Theatre Projects’ production of The Wedding Party by Kristen Thomson is that wild wedding that you always wanted to attend, as long as it wasn’t YOU in the middle of the family bickering. It has it all – the narcissist father of the bride who is paying for the whole affair, the mother of […]
To say that Alberta Theatre Projects’ presentation of The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig is charged is an understatement. As a follow up to The Last Wife, this play thrusts Elizabeth (Bess) front and centre. She is the centre of a trial to uncover her involvement with a plan to abduct Edward the current King, attempted by Thomas Seymour. […]