Results tagged “carolshields”

"March of the Penguins" by BrynJ.

Canstage opened its new season at the Bluma Appel with a much-ballyhooed production of Of Mice and Men (scooping Stratford's 2007 season), which resulted in Torontoist's inbox becoming full of e-mails requesting that we audition our dogs for the show (we declined). Things recommenced rather more innocuously at the Berkeley Street Theatre with the world premiere of The Story of My Life, a self-labelled "small musical." The two-hander is all about friendship and death. Or something.

The story goes that editors Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson were having lunch one day when they decided that, even with all the good the feminist movement had done, there were still so many unanswered questions; ones that some were afraid to ask or that took them by surprise. They commissioned a number of women writers to give it a voice and Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told was the result.

Death, sickness and resurrection in today's theatre round-up: