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Month: June 2021

Are The Statues Speaking to Us? UPDATE

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Robin Breon

An excellent article in The Guardian recently (“Why Every Single Statue Should Come Down” The Guardian 01/06/21), by former Guardian columnist Gary Younge – now a professor at the University of Manchester lecturing in sociology – has come forward with Read More …

Death and the King’s Horseman at Soulpepper plus our interview with playwright Wole Soyinka

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Robin Breon

Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto continues with its highly successful streaming series of audio plays, Around the World in 80 Plays, with this seldom seen classic, Death and the King’s Horseman which premieres tomorrow. I interviewed Soyinka for the Globe and Read More …

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Culture Under Fire: Protecting Ukrainian Heritage

April 30, 2022
The war in Ukraine has seen the destruction of industrial sites, residential neighborhoods, farmland, hospitals and schools. And although the loss of human life has been devastating there is also the increasing vulnerability of the cultural heritage sector, that is...
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Of Zelensky and Havel: Ukraine’s Heroic Leader Recalls Another Artist-Turned-President

April 5, 2022
(The following article is re-posted (slightly amended) from Critically Speaking (Spring 2022), the newsletter of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association.) It is spring in Kyiv and right now there is a playwright who is trying to capture the horrific events as...
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The Music Man is in trouble, lots and lots of trouble!

March 29, 2022
With an opening zinger worthy of George S. Kaufman, one of Jesse Green’s theatre critic predecessors at the New York Times, his recent review of The Music Man, a Broadway revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, began: “There comes...
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From Show Boat to West Side Story: racialisms in the musical theatre canon.

February 19, 2022
In the run-up to Steven Spielberg’s now Oscar nominated film re-make of the musical, West Side Story (streaming on the Disney channel), a hubbub of concerned opinion pieces began to appear in the press and online media regarding the historically...
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