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The woman’s tale
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Who tells your story? Who is left behind? What is left behind? These are the types of questions the award-winning play Shakespeare’s Will examines.
Written by Winnipeg-born playwright Vern Thiessen and directed by Eric Blais,...
Tramping the trails of Winnipeg
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Living in Winnipeg is not always easy, but it’s always something. Cold enough to crack bones and hot enough to melt pavement, Winnipeg is a city with a troubled spirit, a place of great...
‘Bardlemania’ a bit of a bumpy ride
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The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre kicked off Winnipeg’s 20th annual Master Playwright Festival with a 1960s-set adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It starring a talented cast of exceptional singers. Director Daryl Cloran created...
‘American Psycho’ meets an English classic
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How do you perform a classic? Do you focus on perfecting the form or do you deliver a new interpretation of the piece? The U of M’s theatre program has decided reinterpretation is the...
Sam Singer — ‘Don’t Mistake Me for a Lovebird,’ 4/5
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Though electronic music and programmed sounds can have every bit as much humanity as live instrumentation, there may always remain that pervasive belief that real instruments manipulated by human hands say something that little...
Bluebloods — ‘Make It Rain,’ 3.5/5
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The nature of the growing pop music monogenre — music that’s promoted largely on the way it blends multiple, supposedly incompatible genres — means that music like Bluebloods’s debut EP Make It Rain rarely...
Jiving and swinging into the roaring ’20s with UMSwing
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Welcome to the ’20s everyone. While war, violence and environmental collapse seem to encroach more and more each day, maybe there are some trappings of a bygone era that aren’t all that bad.
For instance,...
