Overview: The 2010 Theatre Season

by Anna Fuerstenberg (Theatre Critic for Rover: Montreal Arts Uncovered)

I confess that I was away in Ecuador for two months and missed some terrific plays in the 2010 season. Yet even a cursory glance at some of the plays I did get to see and/or review warms the cockles of my weak heart.

I missed The Mid Life Crisis of Dionysus, and I can only hope that some day it will be re-mounted.

There was a great joy in seeing A Line In the Sand at the Segal Studio and Tableau d’Hote inspired me with their professionalism, the directing was really superb and the acting was extraordinary.

I liked Anderson’s Inkwell and my seven year old companion was enchanted.

Mission Drive seemed to need a few more drafts and a public reading or two.

Gifting Theatre: CharPo Contributors help you finish your shopping

Gaëtan Charlebois
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
When I saw the raw, unpleasant, hilarious power of Martin McDonagh's first play to be presented here, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and then his brilliant film, In Bruges, I knew he was writing for me. This, from all reports, is a similarly difficult night of theatre but I bet you won't leave the theatre unmoved. Absurd Person Singular Going to a play by Alan Ayckbourn is like opening a Christmas present from a dear friend; it will always be a surprise, sometimes make you laugh until you cry...or just cry but it will always be something you really wanted.
(BTW: You still have a chance to win tickets to this show)

BARBARA FORD
It’s a no-brainer … Centaur’s Wildside but don’t ask me to choose one play out of the lot!  Just buy that special someone a pass so they can go nuts and see everything … best deal in town AND you can work off the turkey, mash potatoes and gravy walking up that hill from the Place d’Armes Metro to get there!  If I HAVE to choose, either Miss Sugarpuss Must Die or Hynogogic Logic to inoculate against the inevitable onslaught of winter blues.

PATRICK GODDARD
Neon Nightz at WildSide. Give your loved one a table dance at Centaur!

The French-language Press: Urban Tales, Centaur

"...Yes, the stories anger, disturb, perturb. But they also occasionally make one smile and even burst out laughing. Bottom line, what is important, is they don't leave us indifferent. So it's mission accomplished, for Centaur. And we cross our fingers they will repeat the exercise for many years."

Geneviève Germain (Translated by GLC)

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