Heads up and what I’m seeing for the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2021.
Monday Aug 30 – Sept. 3, 2021
Cahoots, Hot House Lift-Off-Showcase
A showcase of new work by interesting playwrights for Cahoots.
Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.
I’m seeing:
THREE TALL WOMEN,
At the Stratford Festival. By Edward Albee. Directed by Diana Leblanc. Starring: Martha Henry, Lucy Peacock and Mamie Zwettler, Andrew Iles.
A play about remembering and all that entails. Complex, funny, Albee. A cast to make you swoon.
It plays until Oct. 9.
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. 11 am
Here for Now Theatre, New Works Festival.
I’m seeing:
In Search of Catharsis
Written and performed by Jessica B. Hill and directed by Rodrigo Beilfuss
(Reading Series)
Why are we here?
This ‘making sense of living’ thing is hard, no matter who you are.
Join a member of the Ancient Greek pantheon as she candidly wrestles with the grand improvisation of existence. Something we’ve all been going through….especially this year. Wouldn’t it be nice if life came with a manual?
In Search of Catharsis is a one-person storytelling about our never-ending battle with uncertainty.
It has something to do with science, madness, theatre…and a weasel.
Reality really is what you make of it.
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.
I’m seeing:
At the Stratford Festival.
SERVING ELIZABETH
VENUE: TOM PATTERSON THEATRE CANOPY
AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 26
Written by Marcia Johnson.
Directed by Kimberley Rampersad.
IN THE SCRIPT OF HISTORY, WHO GETS A SPEAKING ROLE?
In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern on a TV drama series about the British royal family – while also pursuing a writing project of her own. These parallel narratives seem only coincidentally connected – until a surprising twist reveals a deeper relationship between the two.
Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021. 2:00 pm
The Thousand Islands Playhouse,
Gananoque. Ont.
Sexy Laundry
Written by Michael Rimi
Directed by Krista Jackson
Starring: Sarah Dodd and Shawn Wright
“Armed with a copy of “Sex for Dummies,” Alice and Henry check themselves into a trendy spa hotel with a mission: to jump-start their 25-year marriage. Can they embrace all the wild suggestions Alice keeps pulling from her handy-dandy marriage-saving manual? Is Henry prepared to see his fifty-plus wife, and mother of his children, dressed in black leather?”
(I also believe there is a riding crop involved. There are no horses in this show.)