News: Inishmore hits out

The upcoming production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore is making noise.

Read the Broadway World article here.

Sunday Feature: A Space Odyssey

4449 blvd. St-Laurent (Fox Shoes)

photo: Michel Villeneuve

By Anna Papadakos

A semi-fictionalized account of an interview with myself on the eve before New Year’s eve 2010 – 2011

ENTITLED:

SPACE ODYSSEY: Confessions of a Montreal theatre artist (who could have been a rich Real Estate agent in NY) with a proclivity toward both site-specific and site generic theatre

My attraction to site-specific theatre is not an incidental act. I have been enthralled by the beauty and uniqueness of spaces from the time I was a child. While growing up in New York with my father and brother, I remember regularly going through the free weekly “The Pennysaver”, looking for homes, run down farmhouses and industrial buildings to fix up and live in. I was particularly attracted to structures in remote areas of town. I was lucky in that my father, a man with the bug to be constantly on the move didn’t need any coaxing from his little daughter and that we had rather similar tastes…up to a certain point. 

Video News: Tableau D'Hôte in trouble

A Twitter notice brought us to this video which describes the financial situation in which the celebrated company finds itself.

News: Studio Six to Perform at WildSide

The arrival of ...itsy bitsy spider... at the Wildside Festival has created some media waves outside of Montreal.


Read the Broadway World article here.

Video: Keir Cutler in Rant Demon

Keir Cutler will be bringing Rant Demon to WildSide

CharPo's WildSide Photo Album

CharPo's WildSide Aggregator, 2011

All our articles and pics about and around the WildSide Festival at Centaur. (Check back often...there will be more first person articles, reviews and pics!)
Review: Neon Nightz
Review: Rant Demon
Review: ...the itsy bitsy spider...
Review: Miss Sugarpuss Must Die
Ford's Focus: Holly Gauthier-Frankel of Miss Sugarpuss Must Die
Review: Hamlet (solo)
Review: I am I
Review: Duplicity Girls
Video: Raoul Bhaneja talks about Hamlet (solo) 
Review: Hypnogogic Logic
Photo: WildSide...it's here, baby!
Video: CharPo Editors' Choices, WildSide, 2011
First Person: Towards a Rock & Roll Theatre; I am I as seen by its author, Mike Czuba
Ford's Focus: Ned Cox author of Duplicity Girls
News: The arrival of ...itsy bitsy spider... creates news outside of Montreal.
Video: Keir Cutler in a clip from Rant Demon
Album: CharPo's WildSide Photo Album
Interview: Raoul Bhaneja of Hamlet (solo)
Picture: The ladies of Neon Nightz
Video: Keir Cutler (Rant Demon) on the Shakespeare question
Interview: Alexandre Marine, director of ...itsy, bitsy, spider...
Article: Keir Cutler (of Rant Demon) talks about the art of the solo
Picture: The goofs of Uncalled For (Hypnogogic Logic)
Picture: Holly Gauthier-Frankel, of the one and only Miss Sugarpuss Must Die, helps at the MECCAs

CharPo's Picture of the Week, December 30

Women with Guns
Carmen Cartterfield in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, at the Segal Centre, opening next week (photo: Antonio Starnino)

After Dark, December 28, 2010

by Gaëtan L. Charlebois


At this time of year I remember how I used to feel at the end of one acting school term and before the beginning of the next. Forget Christmas or New Year's hap-hap-happy. My guts used to churn.

When I watch young actors, fresh out of acting school, even before they open their mouths or do a goddam thing on stage, I admire them. They have been through the grinder of training and from all the stories I've heard from actors, new and veteran, about their education, not much has changed in the teaching of the trade.

You still have the improv, voice, movement, dance, text, makeup and interpretation classes. I also had fencing and mime, which some schools have, some don't. It's work. It's classes all day, rehearsals for the term play at night and on weekends. It's work. Sometimes it's pulverizing because time has to be snatched away from sleep for history of theatre papers, theatre lit reading and learning lines. It's work...

...and it's teachers.

Interview: Raoul Bhaneja of Hamlet (solo)

(photo credit: Andrew Kenneth Martin)

By Estelle Rosen (CharPo Editor)

(through partnership with Upstage - Theatre on Radio)

Hamlet (solo)  being presented by Repercussion Theatre  and performed by Raoul Bhaneja will be among the plays in the Centaur Theatre WildSide Festival. First seen in Montreal in 2006 participating in The New Classical Theatre Festival, they were awarded a MECCA for Best Visiting Production.

CKUT Upstage contributor Alison Louder spoke with Raoul 

Bhaneja,  who plays 17 parts in Hamlet (solo) without costumes, props or set. Hamlet stripped down to its essence. For Raoul Bhaneja, the architecture of whatever space they’re in becomes the set.