Domino Theatre Archive
Canes and comedy: ‘A Bench in the Sun’
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- Review
Have you ever been curious to follow two childhood friends into their retirement home? Well, now you can. Kind of. Ron Clark’s A Bench in the Sun is a tale of two old friends who now live in a seniors’ home together. Every morning they meet on their bench in the sun and discuss life’s tumults and vexes with the other. Dialogue is endless and quarrels are persistent as the […]
A family in flux: ‘Hilda’s Yard’
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- Review
At Hilda’s house, nobody uses the front door. Set in 1956, Hilda’s Yard follows an afternoon of mild chaos as empty nesters Hilda and Sam Fluck find their adult children hopping the fence in an unannounced—and uninvited—return home. Jokes are made, relatives are nagged, and heartfelt conversations are had. Hilda’s Yard, a comedy by Norm Foster, premiered in New Brunswick in 2012. This month, it appears at Kingston’s Domino Theatre […]
‘These Shining Lives’ is worth a Watch
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- Review
1922: Catherine, Frances, Charlotte, and Pearl are the four shining faces of the factory workers at the Radium Dial Company. For eight hours a day, they paint tiny numbers on pocket watch after pocket watch, laughing and talking as they dip their brushes in radium-laced paint. When she first joins the company, Catherine is put off by her coworkers’ habit of licking their brushes to make the ends pointy, but […]
‘Miracle on 34th Street’ showcases family Fun
- Domino Theatre
- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- Review
At the Domino Theatre, a by and for family Christmas meditation on what it means to believe is showing. Miracle on 34th Street as it exists onstage was adapted from the 1947 film of the same name. The premise of the show sees a stranded Kris Kringle (Phil Perrin) as he tries to spread Christmas spirit around New York City, encountering the unlikely trio of Doris Walker (Jennifer Tryon), her […]
2 Shows, 7 Doors, and a Monkey: ‘Kong’s Night Out’ at the Domino
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- Review
If you didn’t catch it at The Grand Theatre, the recent run of Kong’s Night Out showed that a lot can happen in a hotel room in New York City on the eve of a Broadway performance. This Domino Theatre production utilized a fixed set, and used this constraint as a method to explore complex narrative structures. The performance gave form to the world of Broadway in the 1930s and […]
Domino Theatre’s Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus asserts that we must all believe in something. The object of this belief, though, is really of little importance.
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- Review
In his song “We All Try”, the brilliant songwriter Frank Ocean echoes the sentiment, “you must believe in something”, because it is this belief in something that drives our need to try.
In a turbulent and divisive time, The Mouse House reminds audiences that we must be kind and vulnerable with one another
- Domino Theatre
- Review
Following the successful run of A Comedy of Tenors, Domino Theatre is back with the second instalment of their season: The Mouse House, a thrilling and timely play by Canadian playwright Robert Ainsworth.
Domino Theatre’s 1-Act Festival Promoted Community Theatre in Every Sense of the Term
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- Festival
- Review
On July 6 & 7, Kingston’s Domino Theatre assembled community theatregoers and lovers for back-to-back evenings of showcasing exclusively local content at their annual One-Act Play Festival. The winning play of the festival is granted the Ken Weston Award for Best Original Script, and the opportunity to represent Domino Theatre at the Eastern Ontario Drama League (EODL) One-Act Festival that is to occur this November 9-11 at Domino Theatre.