Blood, Toes, and a Little Green Pig, CanStage’s Pillowman is Horrifically Funny
When is a story just a story? This is the question that haunts Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman. Not for the faint of heart, McDonagh forces his audience to contemplate when a story crosses a...
View ArticleOn Gibson and Ibsen
It has been said that when Nora slammed the door in A Doll’s House the reverberations were felt across the modern world. Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking play was written in 1879, and one would think that...
View ArticleNews From Around the Barrio
Happy December, my dear TWISI readers! The holiday season is upon us, which means that all the little theatre elves are out spreading cheer and joy in full force and magic is being made across our dear...
View ArticleBlasted Will Blow You Away
michelle monteith photo by omer yukseker The story of the how the British theatre critics reviled, condemned and sought to decimate Sarah Kane’s first play Blasted in 1995, dismissing it as being...
View ArticleKen Gass & The Stolen Theatre
watercolour sketch of the phil goldsmith design for factory theatre – (or, what ken gass fought for) I have been uncharacteristically silent here on TWISI regarding the outrageous firing of Ken Gass,...
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