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Mother’s courage

Don’t mistake the title of The Eco Show. It’s not smugly enlightened theatre meant to congratulate its audience on their ever-greener lifestyles. It couldn’t be more different, actually. Bringing “eco” back to its etymological roots (it comes from the Greek oikos, or “house”), playwright-director Daniel Brooks (The Good ...

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Hot shots

BY David Balzer

The CONTACT photography festival has become well-known for its public installations and for its yearly themes, both of which speak to the event’s sincere wish to reach as broad an audience as ...

Heidi Strauss

BY Alex Tigchelaar

‘An uncontrollable passion that I can only imagine,” says contemporary dancer Heidi Strauss of her muses Joan (of Arc) and Emma (an autistic schoolmate from her youth). “What does it mean to have ...

Emily, the Way You Are

BY David Balzer

Composer and painter Jana Skarecky and poet Di Brandt met at a conference several years ago, when Brandt commissioned Skarecky to write musical accompaniment to the works of P.K. Page. They formed...

Daniel Barrow

To talk with Winnipeg-based artist Daniel Barrow about his work is, on one hand, to be necessarily intimate. He is the first to admit that what he does is indeed about him — his experiences, his feelings, ...

Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin (1879), Tchaikovsky’s most popular opera, makes a welcome return to the Canadian Opera Company after an absence of 13 years in an unusual but intriguing production from Opéra national du Rhin. ...

Survivor’s guilt

Winner of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, Colleen Murphy’s The December Man is perhaps not what you’d expect from a play about the 1989 Montreal Massacre. It is not explicitly about ...

Ibi Kaslik

Girls in the world of Great Rock Novels are rarely the ones calling the shots. At best, they’re muses, subjected to impromptu hagiographies through the music and lyrics of their Peter Pannish sweethearts onstage. If...

Talking in two tongues

One of Théâtre français de Toronto’s recent selling points has been its use of opera-like English surtitles for the city’s significant contingent of French-impaired francophiles. This is not the case with L’homme ...

Dancing to Slaughter

Choreographer-dancer Allen Kaeja grew up working in his father’s Kitchener abattoir, which he describes, without the slightest trace of hesitation or horror, as “a place of wonderment,” and “part of the natural ...

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