Jo Ledingham Theatre Reviews

Watching Glory Die

At The Cultch until May 3, 2014
Watching Glory Die is like watching what faith you had in the Canadian Correctional System die, too. What began as the story of a rebellious, fourteen-year girl throwing a couple of crabapples at the back of a New Brunswick mailman in 2003 ended up with the nineteen-year-old dying of self-strangulation in October 2007 in the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario.

Playwright/actor Judith Thompson in Watching Glory Die. Credit: Wendy D Photography

The Bomb-itty of Errors

At the Arts Club Revue Stage until May 10, 2014
Grab your honey and some money/And get on down/
The Bomb-itty of Errors has hit this town/

David Kaye in The Bomb-itty of Errors. Credit: Candace Albach

Killer Joe

Italian Cultural Centre parking lot (southwest corner) until May 4, 2014
The windstorm howling around the trailer on opening night was nothing compared to the storm going on inside as Chris Smith (Sebastien Archibald) persuades the rest of the family to hire a hit man to off his mother.

Emma Slipp as Sharla in Killer Joe. Credit: Andrew Klaver

Annie

At Massey Theatre until April 26, 2014
There are some very big pipes on some very small girls at New Westminster’s Massey Theatre right now. One of these little girls – Jaime MacLean, who plays Molly – is only eight but she can belt with the best of them.

Julia MacLean as Annie. Credit: Tim Matheson

PROUD

At The Firehall Arts Centre until April 26, 2014
It’s spooky how like Stephen Harper actor Andrew Wheeler is in PROUD and it’s not all in the grey, plastered-down wig.

Andrew Wheeler as Prime Minister Stephen Harper in PROUD. Credit: Emily Cooper

The Old Curiosity Shop

At Jericho Arts Centre until April 20, 2014
The Old Curiosity Shop is a bit of a curiosity in itself. It’s a Charles Dickens novel set back in 1825 and serialized weekly in 1841. Director Sarah Rodgers writes that New York readers “stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841.”

Graeme Thompson, Kazz Leskard and Kirsty Provan. Credit: Nancy Caldwell

Ghosts in Baghdad

At Little Mountain Theatre until April 6, 2014
Many of us remember the TV coverage of the looting of Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq in the Spring of 2003. Perhaps by the time we saw the news the most precious artifacts had already been stolen because what I remember seeing were men and boys running out with chairs, bookcases and small tables.

Alec Willows as Khalil Najim in Ghosts in Baghdad. Credit: Tim Matheson

Mies Julie

At The Cultch until April 19, 2014
When Mies Julie (Hilda Cronje) enters the room, barefoot and bare leggèd, slick with sweat and wearing a flimsy skirt slit to the waist, you know she’s looking for action.

Bongile Mantsai (John) and Hilda Cronje (Julie) in Mies Julie. Credit: Mark Wessels

To Wear A Heart So White

At The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue) until March 30
After Macbeth stabbed King Duncan in his bedchamber he finds his hands drenched in blood and he begins to panic. Get over it, says Lady Macbeth.

Credit: Dan Borzillo

Innocence Lost

At Studio 58 until April 6, 2014
Can there be any adequate compensation for being falsely convicted of rape and murder, and being incarcerated for a decade from the age of fourteen? That’s the story of Steven Truscott, dramatized in 2009 by Canadian playwright Beverley Cooper and on stage now at Studio 58.

Mike Gill as Steven Truscott in Innocence Lost. Credit: Emily Cooper

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