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It is impossible to write anything about recent Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman (pictured, centre) and her play Scratch without mentioning her parents. This is a little unfortunate as it might seem to imply that the reason to pay attention to this actor and recent graduate of the National Theatre School's playwriting program is because she is the daughter of actor/director/writer/former Artistic Director of Passe Muraille Layne Coleman and novelist/journalist Carole Corbeil and not because she is a fabulous talent in her own right, which she very much is. But versions of both of her formidable parents appear as characters in Scratch. Although ostensibly a work of fiction, the play is admittedly semi-autobiographical, and the story of Scratch's Anna (played by Corbeil-Coleman) and her struggle with her mother's death as well as an especially prolific case of lice mirrors the playwright's own experience when her mother passed away in 2000.

Fish Shak isn't what it used to be. Literally. Last fall, that place in Kensington that always advertised enigmatic "fish tea" turned itself into Bread & Circus Theatre Bar, one of the tiniest places in the city to catch a show and drink a beer. And Fish Shak Co-op is the name of the company whose production of Morris Panych's two-hander Lawrence and Holloman is currently enjoying its second run inside the former seafood haven.