Results tagged “greengables”

This weekend, the Ex is once again hosting Toronto's popular Clothing Show, the retail sales event offering "the unique, the unusual, and the handcrafted" to the citizenry.

What Going Great was most known for in later years, however, was its hosts. The entire run was helmed by Chris Makepeace, 1980s Meatballs and My Bodyguard teen heartthrob (and brother of our Panoramaist contributor Tony), with additional reporting duties by Megan "Anne Of Green Gables" Follows and Keanu "Blue Pill/Red Pill" Reeves.

Hmm, maybe the CBC finally came to its senses and realized that reality shows like the Dragon's Den and the One are about as good an idea as "Nuts and Gum". Well, the Ceeb has agreed to develop tv movies and mini-series based on works of Canadian literature.

Theatre people often get a bum deal. Humiliating auditions, selling the car for acting classes or singing lessons or to fund a play, producing blood, sweat and tear-filled work and for what? To end up emotionally drained, penniless and with nothing but a collection of tap shoes and wigs to keep them warm at night? So is life on the stage. And, damn it, they deserve recognition for it.

We have to thank Sam Shepard for one thing. He's finally gotten us over Anne. In Shepard's 1983 motel play (what is it with this season and plays set in motels?), Fool for Love, former Green Gables girl Megan Follows performs wrenchingly well, as does her husband, Stuart Hughes. The couple plays an on-again-off-again couple with a dark and dirty secret, and they do so well. We could have done with less crawling, less slamming ones body against the walls of the hotel room in despair, but perhaps they just really liked the set. We really liked it too. Sort of like an Edward Hopper painting come to life, a feeling neatly echoed by the moody lighting.