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“Twist” of Fate

May 11, 2007 No Comments by Russell Blackwood

On Saturday morning everything seemed normal. Jim and I went at to breakfast at Luna in The Castro. It was crowded. The waiter divided a “four top” made up of two small tables, so the two gents next to us were sitting very close indeed. I couldn’t help but eavesdrop a bit, overhearing things like [...]

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The Grand Guignol Lab Erupts

Apr 02, 2007 No Comments by Daniel Zilber

Today’s edition of the University of Maryland’s student newspaper features a story on the student-produced and directed Grand Guignol play that I mentioned here yesterday. The Lab: An Experiment in Grand Guignol gets high marks from student reporter Dave Smith, though his article could have used another proof-read and a healthy dose of judicious editing: [...]

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Good Times with the Grand Guignol

Apr 01, 2007 No Comments by Daniel Zilber

An actor at the University of Maryland writes about his experiences performing in a Grand Guignol production on campus: “I’m very thankful for this opportunity to explore such an obscure artform, one that is seldom done anymore. Grand Guignol is such a melodramatic, overly-exaggerated way of theatre. It definitely goes for shock value, using realistic [...]

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Is CanStage’s RHS DOA?

Mar 31, 2007 No Comments

The reviews are in for CanStage’s revival of The Rocky Horror Show, which opened last week at the Bluma Appel Theatre in Toronto, and they’re not pretty. Paula Citron of the Globe and Mail writes: Pity the poor Rocky Virgins, that distinct underclass of society who has never experienced either the stage or movie versions [...]

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