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Stationary: A Recession Era Musical features honest songs about dead-end jobs
May 5, 2015[caption id="attachment_2358" align="alignright" width="940"] Photo courtesy of Luca Ragogna.[/caption] If you’ve ever felt like you’re stuck in a job you don’t like just to pay the bills, or you’re just waiting for your life to start, you’ll relate to Stationary and its cast of young, unsatisfied office workers. The set looked like a typical office with claustrophobic cubicles, a reception area, and a management office. There was also the cliché of a blooming romance between the cute receptionist (Lizzie, played by Christine Quintana), and the office nice guy (new kid Aiden, played by Anton Lipovetsky). This group of exceptionally talented…
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Cadre is an award-winning play about struggle during the apartheid
March 12, 2015In early February, it struck me that I had been in Vancouver for three years and had been blessed with the opportunities of attending myriad shows, but none of these had been from my home continent of Africa. When I…
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Omphile Molusi discusses his new political piece of theatre, Cadre
February 16, 2015Inspired by Omphile Molusi’s uncle, who spent time in jail, Cadre is loosely based around two events of his uncle’s life as a soldier. It is also a story about becoming an activist from a very young age. “It is…
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A Motherload of a play
January 26, 2015Tackling the extremely relatable topic of mother in the modern age with dark humour and wit, Motherload promises to be a smash hit. According to the show’s producer and star, Emelia Symington Fedy, the play “talks about all the dark…
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Samuel Beckett at his best
January 2, 2015Written in 1956, All That Fall by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett has never been professionally produced in Canada, until now. First broadcast on BBC radio, Beckett never allowed the play to be produced on stage. He insisted that it was…
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