Sneak Preview Reviews: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MACKENZIE KING, and THE CHILDREN’S REPUBLIC

by Lynn on November 17, 2011

in The Passionate Playgoer

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MACKENZIE KING, written and directed by Michael Hollingsworth, is an uproarious look at the rough and tumble life of Willam Lyon MacKenzie King, back room politics and the effect on the common Canadian in the early 20s and 30s.

It is the most entertaining, perceptive, witty, history lesson you wish you had in high school.

It plays at The Cameron House through December. Produced by VideoCabaret.

THE CHILDREN’S REPUBLIC by Hannah Moscovitch is a disappointment about the life of doctor and theorist, Janusz Korczak who ran an orphanage in Warsaw from 1939-42. The play is so oddly written it gives scant reason for Korczak’s considerable notariety; and doesn’t really capture the terrifying times these people were living in.

It plays at Tarragon Theatre until December 18.

Both plays will be reviewed in full on Friday, November 18 on CIUT 89.5 FM between 9 am to 10 am.

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