Silent Sky
Streaming online until April 18, 2021
Silent Sky, written by Lauren Gunderson, falls into the category of ‘Who knew?’
Jenna Hill as Henrietta Leavitt in Silent Sky. Credit: Doug Williams
Out Of Order
Streaming online from The Cultch until March 21, 2021
At times dark and somber, at others exuberant and joyful, Out Of Order offers you a seat you’ve never had before, at a circus the likes of which you’ve never seen before. It’s an intoxicating marriage of circus, theatre and film.
Anna Kichtchenko in Out Of Order. Credit: Sébastien Lozé
TomorrowLove
Streaming online from Studio 58 until March 7, 2021. (Extended until March 31, 2021)
Written by Canadian playwright Rosamund Small, TomorrowLove is made up of thirteen playlets ranging in length from fifteen minutes to an hour. Bound together by the theme of relationships, each short work introduces a not-yet-invented technology that will alter the relationship of the characters.
Ray Koh and Mary-Rose Cohen in Perfect. Set and costume design: Melicia Zaini. Lighting and projections: Sophie Tang
Credit: Emily Cooper
Frequencies
Live-streamed as part of Pi Theatre’s Provocateur Series. No more performances.
In a word, trippy, like a Physics 200 lecture on acid.
Mx
Live-streaming from The Cultch until February 24, 2021
As a 2019 Fringe play, Mx won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award and has gone on to be developed for the digital stage by the playwright, co-directors Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Jiv Parasram as well as the video and tech team.
Lili Robinson as Max in Mx. Credit: Christache Ross
Macbeth Muet
Live-streamed from Montreal on February 19, 2021
You will never see a Macbeth this imaginative again. Guaranteed. The New York Times review said, “It may break your heart in ways you don’t see coming.” Strangely true.
Jérémie Francoeur as Macbeth and Clara Prévost as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Muet
Credit: Sophie Gagnon Bergeron
Unexpecting
A digital radio play presented by the Arts Club until September 15, 2021
Playwright Bronwyn Carradine has a great ear for dialogue and that’s a good thing because Unexpecting was initially written for stage but ambushed by the pandemic.
The Cave
Recorded at the 2019 Luminato Festival in Toronto and presented online by the Cultch. No more performances
I almost didn’t see this show because I thought it would be too depressing. While there’s not a lot of optimism in it, The Cave is aesthetically spectacular and it’s wonderful that singing animals, usually relegated to Theatre for Young Audiences, have moved to the adult stage where grownups might begin to listen.
The Cave cast and band. Credit: J Mar Electric
She Sells Sea Shells
Online performances until February 14, 2021
Mary Anning (1799-1847). Ring any bells? Not likely. And why is that? After all, she is known as “the greatest fossilist the world ever knew”, according to the British Journal of the History of Science.
Hannah Pearson, Krista Skwarok and Isaac Li in She Sells Sea Shells. Credit: Nancy Caldwell
A Brimful of Asha
Digital stage recording available from the Surrey Civic Theatres until January 31, 2021
A is for Asha. B is for Brimful. C is for charming. A Brimful of Asha will give you a reason to smile.
Ravi Jain and his mother Asha Jain in A Brimful of Asha. Credit: Erin Brubacher