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EXHIBITION: AFGHANISTAN, A Glimpse of War at the Canadian War Museum. Originally published in rabble.ca, May 11, 2008

August 19, 2021August 22, 2021 Robin Breon

When I wrote this review of an exhibit at the Canadian War Museum thirteen years ago, I had no idea how accurately it would presage the current debacle unfolding in Afghanistan today. It is also a rather shameful example of Read More …

National Ballet of Canada picks new Artistic Director: an interview with dance critic Deirdre Kelly

July 15, 2021July 30, 2021 Robin Breon

Long time arts journalist, Deirdre Kelly, is the former dance critic for the Globe and Mail and currently serves as editor of The York University Magazine. She holds a masters degree in English from University of Toronto and is a Read More …

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 …

Pirandello, A Playwright for Our Times: SOULPEPPER THEATRE presents Six Characters in Search of an Author /Updated

May 13, 2021June 10, 2021 Robin Breon

UPDATED May 18, 2021: SOULPEPPER presents Six Characters in Search of an Author By Luigi Pirandello  Directed by Daniele Bartolini Translated by Edward Storer Sound design by Matteo Ciardi Dramaturgical adaptation on translation by Daniele Bartolini and Luke Reece in Read More …

TALK IS FREE THEATRE

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 Robin Breon

TALK IS FREE THEATRE Barrie, Ontario Arkady Spivak, Artistic Director Dinner à la Art Have you missed the combination of “dinner and a show” over the past year? Well, so have the many restaurants throughout the country who have benefited Read More …

THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL: Do We Really Want to Return to Theatre’s Status Quo?

March 21, 2021April 15, 2021 Robin Breon

The following article appeared in Critically Speaking (Winter/ 2021), the newsletter of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association. Normalton. Is it a place where any of us would want to live? I was moved recently by an op-ed piece that appeared Read More …

BOOK REVIEW: I’m Gonna Say It Now, The Writings of Phil Ochs

January 26, 2021February 11, 2021 Robin Breon

I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs Edited by David Cohen Backbeat Books www.rowman.com Where have all the folkies gone Long time passing Where have all the folkies gone Long time ago “One good song with a Read More …

Happy Birthday Phil Ochs

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Robin Breon

Phil Ochs would have been 80 years old today. His life and work is worth remembering and so I’m citing a review of a play I wrote for rabble.ca when The Ballad of Phil Ochs toured the country several years Read More …

ARE STATUES SPEAKING TO US?

November 21, 2020December 10, 2020 Robin Breon

In the final act of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, a statue of Queen Hermione comes to life after 16 years of being seemingly frozen in time. Her observations and reconciliation with her daughter, Paulina, leads to a somewhat qualified happily Read More …

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Hamlet and the Uncertainty Principle: A Quandary in the Present Tense

June 27, 2022
Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Hamlet The story of Hamlet is over several hundred years old. In Historica Danica, Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1150 - c. 1220),...
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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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