Category Archives: Dance, theatre & musicals

Stewart Goodyear and Czerny’s four boxes

Posted on November 13, 2014 by barczablog

Do you read liner notes?  I always begin to do so.  If there’s something of substance, not only do I read them but I cherish them, making them part of the big conversation that is the work of art.  Nothing … Continue reading →

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Gerald Finley on the shelf

Posted on November 11, 2014 by barczablog

It’s November. October was Gerald Finley month in Toronto, as his Falstaff jumped up on the table that was our collective experience (and for the final scene of the opera). Don’t let the headline (“Finley on the shelf”) scare you, … Continue reading →

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Dreams of the Vienna Woods

Posted on November 7, 2014 by barczablog

How can a place signify so much if you’ve never been there?  But when we look forward to a promised land –whether it’s America for the immigrant, Mecca or Jerusalem for the pilgrim, or just a personal utopia—it’s a mental landscape … Continue reading →

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Extensions of Us 11.13.14 Questions and Answers

Posted on November 1, 2014 by barczablog

The program was created as a reaction to our experiences as recital performers and audience members. We come to this process with a great love for the art form, but also with a combined knowledge and experience as to its … Continue reading →

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Happy Halloween, Frankenstein’s Boy!

Posted on October 26, 2014 by barczablog

The song during the pre-show was a tip-off I suppose. While the title says the show is about a boy, this song says otherwise. And there it is, right on the poster. Eldritch Theatre’s newest is Frankenstein’s Boy, a classic … Continue reading →

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Factory Theatre vs the critics

Posted on September 27, 2014 by barczablog

For the second consecutive year, Factory Theatre is in the news.  Last year it was the controversy around its leadership.   That’s ancient history now. This time it’s an announcement, that critics aren’t invited until the show has already been on … Continue reading →

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Ten questions for Eric Woolfe

Posted on September 18, 2014 by barczablog

While I sometimes aim to write the bio that goes into an interview, sometimes I can’t top the brilliance of what I’m given to work with. For instance, the origins of Eldritch Theatre are explained this way on their website: … Continue reading →

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Kadozuke’s Richard III: right out of today’s headlines

Posted on September 11, 2014 by barczablog

Tatiana Jennings seems prescient. I understand that she and her collaborators in Kadozuke Kollektif and Bad New Days have been working on their adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III for awhile, a piece titled Richard III: the pleasures of violence. How … Continue reading →

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Ten Questions for Tatiana Jennings

Posted on September 1, 2014 by barczablog

Tatiana Jennings is a Russian born and trained actor, director, dancer and choreographer. She studied theatre and film at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and was a star of the Moscow experimental theatre scene. Her solo performance Madame Marguerite … Continue reading →

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Mother Courage

Posted on July 25, 2014 by barczablog

I just saw Seana McKenna tonight as Mother Courage aka Anna Fierling in Brecht’s play Mother Courage and Her Children, at the Tom Patterson Theatre until September 21st. It’s a horrible week in the news, between civilian planes being shot … Continue reading →

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