Markowiak’s Lemon Tells The Young Adult Blues
My review of Andrew Markowiak’s LEMON, produced by Filament Incubator. Read it in Sewer Lid Magazine.
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Trevor Abes: Writer
Tag: Theatre
May 2, 2016
Theatre of the Oppressed: Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom
My review of Jordan Tannahill’s double bill in The Theatre Reader.
Botticelli in the Fire “[tames] political and religious fundamentalism into conquerable myths.”
Sunday in Sodom “is an act of reclamation that lives up to the proportions of the book it comes from.”
Read it here.
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
April 8, 2016
Coal Mine Theatre Slays With Killer Joe
My review of The Coal Mine Theatre’s production of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe.
“Killer Joe takes the radical humanist stance of affixing a domestic, sociological lens onto North American politics by getting to know the people threatening to make it great again. […] Years from now, this production should be remembered as a period piece, unabashedly of its time, all up in the chaos of history being written.”
Read it here.
Photo by Matt Campagna.
February 12, 2016
Communicating Without Ego: Then They Fight Theatre’s Our Idiot Friend Is Now Dead
Photo by Cesar Ghisilieri Photography.
My review of this year’s 10/10/10 Project — Then They Fight Theatre’s Our Idiot Friend Is Now Dead — is up today in Sewer Lid Magazine.
Read it here.
September 26, 2015
When TV Watches Back: Coyote Collective’s Like a Generation
The terrifying thing about watching a lot of TV is that most of the damage it causes is both delivered and received with a smile. Understanding this smile is the central concern in Like a Generation, the latest play from Toronto’s Coyote Collective.
Read my review in Sewer Lid Magazine.
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