CD Review

Title: Menopause And Beyond: New Wisdom For Women

Author: Christiane Northrup MD

CD Review

Title: Wondering Where The Rush Has Gone

Artist: James Murdoch Band

Written By: Kindah Mardem Bey

It's all fun and games until a cellphone goes off in the middle of a performance and the freak who left their phone on has the nerve to answer it: “Oh no, I’m not busy.” We should stop the performance, face the culprit and point until they are ridiculed into silence. Okay, I might be a little overdramatic here, but attending enough theatre performances has taught me that ill-mannered attendees are simply people desperately seeking the attention of an entire audience. However, my ticket stub did not come with the disclaimer, “Please make sure you give your entire attention to Aisle G Seat 40 at exactly 43 minutes into the performance.” As a theatre-goer you don’t pay to give your undivided attention to anything but the play. So, here’s a short refresher course on the “do's” and “don'ts" of being a polite theatre-goer.

Here’s to a potentially fantastic season in 2011 at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Recently announced, the 2011 season will highlight four of Shakespeare’s plays: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, and Twelfth Night. Finally a collection theatre goers can sink their teeth into! Rarely do you see the likes of Merry Wives and Titus performed and Richard III promises to be possibly one of the most unique versions of the play with Seana McKenna playing the lead. That’s right – a woman will be playing Richard, which may affront some people, but anyone who has seen any performance by McKenna in her 19 seasons at Stratford will know that after having played every major female character Shakespeare wrote, and even playing his wife Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare’s Will (which you can also see again in the 2011 season), McKenna has an incredible stage presence and can easily pull off such a performance – but how delicious to watch!

Geraint Wyn Davies a well-seasoned Stratford performer has been gifted with two exceptional characters to sink his teeth into as he will play Falstaff in Merry Wives and will also play King Arthur in Camelot, one of the two musicals set to be featured next season. The second will be Jesus Christ Superstar at the Avon theatre and directed by Des McAnuff. As McAnuff’s truer talent seems to be in musicals, this might be one to see next season.

Theatre Review

Production: The Tempest

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Theatre Review

Production: As You Like It

Museum ExhibitExhibition: The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army

Venue: Royal Ontario Museum

Website: www.rom.on.ca/terracottaarmy/ch

Belinda Carlisle recently released her autobiography this June and has announced a decades long battle with drugs. Anyone who grew up listening to Carlisle’s classic hits in the 1980s with the Go-Gos such as “Heaven Is A Place on Earth”, “Summer In The Rain” and “I Get Weak” should definitely pick up this biography of self-revelations. Press+1 has been lucky enough to obtain this except for our readers….

Theatre Review
Production: Peter Pan
Playwright: J.M Barrie
Director: Tim Carroll
Company: Stratford Shakespeare Festival Of Canada
Venue: Avon Theatre
Run: June 12th to October 31st 2010