Holiday at the Elbow Room Café

At The Cultch until December 29, 2019
Just when I think I have reached the height of my Bah! Humbug-edness, I find myself moved by a young man sweetly singing Silent Night. The young man is David Underhill, a recent Studio 58 grad, and the carol breaks through the craziness that is Holiday at the Elbow Room Café.

Emma Slipp, Joey Lesperance, Emilie Leclerc and David Adams in Holiday at the Elbow Room Café. Set and costume design: Marina Szijarto. Lighting design: Taylor Janzen. Credit: Tim Matheson

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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

This review was initially posted following the November/December 2018 production. There are some cast changes in this Arts Club remount.
At the Arts Club Granville Island Stage  until January 4, 2020
It’s a wonderful life when a new Christmas play comes around to spice up the old familiar theatrical gluhwein. It’s even better when it feels like Jane Austen couldn’t resist revisiting Mary, the seriously bookish middle one of the five Bennet sisters in Pride and Prejudice.

Leslie Dos Remedios (Jane), Baraka Rahmani (Lydia), Kate Dion-Richard (Mary) and Lauren Jackson (Lizzy) in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

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