Montreal playwright provides timeless meditations in Zarathustra...
Trevor Ferguson's fourth play, Zarathustra Said Some Things, No? proves absolutely breathtaking in its examination of two people's chilling journey through substantial life questioning.
This April brings Martin Scorsese's latest concert-doc Shine A Light to theatres-and IMAX!-across the continent. And although it's the arrival of Iron Man at the end of the month that I'm most eagerly awaiting (though not without the normal reservations that come with any superhero flick), I'm pretty interested in catching Marty's newest exercise in rock idolatry as well.
Canadian poets take flight
A Dream of Birds, a slim new volume of poetry, is the result of a casual collaboration between University of Ottawa professor and Can-Lit provocateur Seymour Mayne and fellow poet and novelist B. Glen Rotchin (The Antibody, The Rent Collector). As its title suggests, the collection takes birds as its theme, but quickly extends itself to fundemental human concerns such as love, prayer and poetry itself.
Songstress crosses languages for charity
Although Tuscan born soprano Giorgia Fumanti sang in a prestigious church choir as a child, she didn't become a professional singer until after a few abandoned attempts at other careers. Having given up her childhood dreams of missionary work, she also dropped out of law school two exams shy of graduation, quit music school and then gave up on yoga instructing.
Funny Games invites viewer to violence
What is it about Naomi Watts that inspires filmmakers to submit her character to dangerous, surreal and unaccomadating situations? Although fresh from getting caught up amidst the Russian Mafia in Eastern Promises, and far from having had time to recover from abduction by a giant ape or dealings with malevolent videotapes in King Kong and The Ring (nevermind the psychological wringer David Lynch put her through in Mulholland Dr.
Hendrix photo exhibit a scant experience
On Nov. 3, 1968, St. Louis was honored by the presence of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. After finishing the remains of his joint, Hendrix himself stepped into the spotlight along with the members of the Experience, ready to send the city into a furious psychedelic haze.
The cure for film criticism
In some ways, Pauline Kael's writing on film reads as the antithesis of criticism proper. At times extremely personal, idiomatic and lacking any pretences of authorial neutrality, her work signals a shift away from the ideal of objectivity enjoyed by literary critics and towards the immersive, personalized style of writing that would seize journalism full force with the rise of Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and (later) the gonzo babblings of Hunter Thompson or Lester Bangs.
TNC's latest a bumpy trip down the rocky road of memory
How I Learned to Drive is a play written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel that explores the horrible cycle of molestation while focussing on themes of family, denial, forgiveness, freedom and power. Lil' Bit (Mackenzie Rio Davis) drives down the rocky road of her past relationship with her Uncle Peck (Bobby Lamont), a troubled war veteran.