Month: February 2005

By Kristin McVeigh

A woman stands in her living room folding laundry, while her daughter yells at her about being a bad parent. One might expect to observe this scene walking into any suburban home with a raging adolescent. This scene, though, is a scene from Lunchbox Theatre’s Afterlife. Here’s the twist: the daughter is dead and actually… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Lunchbox and Clem Martini celebrate their Afterlife

By Sherri Shergill

What if a sexually transmitted pandemic raged across North America, but you just couldn’t keep it in your pants? This is the problem challenging the young character in the University of Calgary production of Newhouse, a drama questioning human reaction to social crisis. Placed in a contemporary Canadian setting, this adaptation of Don Juan and… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Newhouse dripping with STDs

By Kyle Francis

Whether it’s taking a trumped up STD test to rewrite a midterm or inciting armed rebellion to get back into art school, nearly everyone has done something drastic for the sake of their continued education. Malcolm, the starring character from the upcoming Dark Forest Theatre production of Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs,… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Little Malcom freed from the middle, gets into facism

By Rachel Betts-Wilmott

The rules dictate strip poker is assumed to be hilarious. Whether drunk off gin in university, or having a few too many bottles of wine in your thirties, it’s always uproarious. That is until an argument about the baby monitor breaks out. The rules command by the time we reach our mid-thirties we are married… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Wine in French high society

By Kyle Francis

There can be no sweeter joy than projecting one’s imagination onto a barren page and bringing it to life with words–creating a world within a book is dangerously close to playing God. As much of a head-inflation writing creatively can be, writing to sustain your life is different terrain entirely. Professional writing is a treacherous… Continue reading Theatre Preview: Greg Nelson: Intimate and unplugged