I’ve never liked Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; he’s often an irritating, high-energy boy flitting about like Peter Pan. Enter Walter Borden, 82, in an elegant, glittering emerald coat and hat, rolling his wonderful, sonorous voice around Shakespeare’s gorgeous language, not rushing it but luxuriating in it, finding the humour, the pace, the perfect articulation. It’s a brilliant piece of casting and just one of director Jeremy Webb’s inspired […]
Shakespeare by the Sea’s vaudeville twist on Twelfth Night is a fun and funny, passionate production steeped in Nova Scotia singer-songwriter Eliza Rhinelander’s original tunes as atmospheric as foggy coasts or smoke-filled, 1920s Paris bars. Director Drew Douris-O’Hara’s remarkably clear and tight-knit adaptation of Shakespeare’s play about love and tomfoolery was inspired by his visit to the Moulin Rouge in Paris during his honeymoon. (His wife Jade Douris-O’Hara plays Olivia, […]
Shakespeare By The Sea’s 31st summer season re-opens tonight in Point Pleasant Park after COVID cases forced the company to cancel nearly a week of performances during excellent weather – “tis true, tis pity.” This season features Alice in Wonderland the Musical and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, which opened triumphantly last Friday night with a huge audience. But the next day four out of the eight-member cast developed COVID symptoms and […]
I didn’t see the Lord of the Rings movies so I didn’t know who Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd were apart from the stars in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now enjoying a soldout run at Neptune Theatre. But now, having seen this epic, existential play, I know what they are: fantastic British stage and film actors, as well as longtime friends, who bring an absurdist duo that would make […]
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