IT WAS 2005 when Peter Hinton was first appointed the English theatre artistic director for the National Arts Centre (NAC). Under his guidance, the NAC saw a number of important developments, such as their first full-programmed season of Canadian plays and an increased focus on Aboriginal theatre. After seven years at the helm, Hinton is moving on to pursue his [...]
Great Canadian Theatre Company Rating: 4.5/5 HIS FATHER WAS a Nazi doctor, her mother a prisoner at Auschwitz—but somehow, Rudi and Sarah find themselves falling in love in an attempt to escape their pasts. Conspiracies, lies, deceit, and war make way into the delicate story aptly called East of Berlin. Having premiered at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on March [...]
SOCIAL CLIMBING, AN obsession with the upper class, and commentaries about pompous aristocrats are all topics in the satire Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Written by Molière and composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully in 17th-century France, the play is now coming to the University of Ottawa campus, as a translation and adaptation under the name Mamamouchi, on March 27–31 at Academic Hall. Jodi [...]
Great Canadian Theatre Company 4/5 A MURDER, A nail-biting trial, and politics. This may sound like another quintessential Hollywood blockbuster trailer, but there are no heroics or happy endings in this dark tale. It’s the tragic story of Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s murder that took place not too far from our own campus many years ago. Though it was the federal [...]
Great Canadian Theatre Company Rating: 3/5 IT’S 1987 IN East Berlin. Under Soviet rule, the wall that divides Germany is still intact. This is the setting for Canadian playwright Richard Sanger’s Whispering Pines. The play, which debuted at the Great Canadian Theatre Company on Oct. 28, sets themes of betrayal, pain, and espionage against the greater fight for freedom and [...]
The GCTC presents Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly THE PRINCE EDWARD County Theatre Company’s production of Amelia: The Girl Who Wants to Fly soars above and beyond a standard retelling of the life and times of Amelia Earhart. Amelia, performed at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, is a two act jazz musical written and composed by Canadian playwright John Gray, who also wrote Billy Bishop Goes [...]
How to get involved in the arts on campus WHETHER YOU PLAY an instrument, or love to sing, act, or dance, if you would like to continue doing so on campus you’ve come to the right school. With musical ensembles and tango classes, the University of Ottawa boasts a variety of options for the artistically inclined. Theatre If you’re a true theatre guru, here’s a project that will [...]
Local theatre company celebrates 25 years of productions FOR THE PAST two decades, Odyssey Theatre has been a summer staple for the Ottawa community. The company’s summer program, aptly named Theatre Under the Stars, uses Strathcona Park in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood as centre stage, performing plays in front of an all-ages audience. In celebration of their anniversary, Odyssey Theatre chose to perform Carlo Goldoni’s The [...]
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