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CENTRE STAGE: In review: Winners and Losers, Trevor Noah at JFL Northwest, and dance at Chutzpah!

Winners and Losers Feb 16–27; The Cultch This show has been gaining plenty of critical acclaim, from being nominated for a 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award to rave reviews from critics, but it didn’t work for me. While there were many interesting concepts discussed through a capitalist lens, I felt like I was essentially eavesdropping on an interesting conversation between two friends. I’ll admit that the conversation was at times engaging, funny, and entertaining, but there were also an equal number of moments when I wondered what the point was. Based on conversations between the performers, Marcus Youssef and James…

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