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Can our ideas represent us? Can they take our place? Nassim Soleimanpour confesses in his 2010 script, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit that he had “Always wanted to write something that makes me free.” A young Iranian playwright barred from leaving his country for having not completed mandatory military service, Soleimanpour sent White Rabbit, Red Rabbit like a paper airplane out of Iran and into the world. Along its fantastic journey, […]

No one’s a stranger, though we all Come From Away… since its inception at Sheridan College in 2011, this Canadian original musical has been nominated for 37 awards and 13 wins, including Best New Musical at the 2019 Olivier Awards and Outstanding Musical at the 2017 Drama Desk Awards. From workshops to the West End, this show has travelled far and wide to finally touchdown at the Thousand Islands Playhouse […]

Content Warning: ‘JOSIAH’ deals with topics like slavery, racism, and trauma. Although this review does not discuss these topics in depth, they are general themes in the performance. I had the chance to catch Theatre Kingston’s one-weekend-only staging of Thousand Miles of Bricks Productions’ touring play JOSIAH, a solo show recounting the life of Josiah Henson from enslavement to freedom. Developed from a collaboration between performer Cassel Miles and playwright […]

When you stop turning with the world, you may just trip into the margins of reality. This fall, the Thousand Islands Playhouse hosts none other than Ronnie Burkett’s touring production, Wonderful Joe. Having received international acclaim for his innovative and evocative puppetry, Canadian theatre legend Burkett has brought to the Gananoque stage an unprecedented fragment of repertoire for an adult theatre audience.  Wonderful Joe’s story follows the final adventure of […]

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. “On all those maps of Underground Railroad travel, they’d show the South, and the arrows go up and spread out… and they get to the border of Canada and stop. What happened after they fled?” In our interview, Cassel Miles, Co-Creator and performer of JOSIAH: The Show, posed and answered a question I have wondered about after years of history classes.  […]

The Kingston Theatre Alliance acknowledges the author of this article was involved in this production and has personal relationships with some creatives mentioned in this article. These individuals did not contribute to the writing of this story nor its editorial process to maintain journalistic standards. As a recent graduate of the DAN School of Drama and Music, I feel confident stating there are few moments—if any—that its students are not […]

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the moment my call with Ewerton Martins begins, we both find ourselves laughing.  Originally from Brazil, Martins is the creator and performer of El Diablo of the Cards. He is nothing but joyful as he greets me via video call from Manitoba, where he has just completed a sold-out run at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival. A graduate of École […]

Matt Shepherd is the leading man and creative mind behind the Kingston Fringe Festival’s upcoming show, Let Us Sit In Goddamn Silence for One Hour. This past Friday I got to speak with him concerning the show’s origins, intentions, and lingering questions.  This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  Why Fringe? This feels like the kind of show you can only see at a fringe festival; did the […]