Review: The Children’s Republic by Hannah Moscovitch

This is a beautifully staged, impressive piece featuring an all-Ottawa cast consisting of four superb seasoned actors and six very promising youths from the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama.

Janet Irwin once again demonstrates her ability to nourish a large cast production through workshops and rehearsal with a sure hand that guides the incredibly intricate elements of a production like this to the superb result that we have here.

Marc Desormeaux’s quadraphonic soundscape at times became Continue reading

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Cat dance

On Prussian blue carpet
she poses attentive:
ninja-ready to spring
into the sunbeam.

Comedy or drama Continue reading

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inside out

The body smoldered in the remains of the house
for a day before they

The grotesque scramble of scorched bones,
blackened flesh and fragments of fabric
howls amid the shattered ruins of the house
like carrion in a horror flick. Rodents and insects
unaccustomed to such pickings scurry around
the margins of artistic lawns Continue reading

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