This year’s Rhubarb! patch
February 12, 1997
Festival of short plays spotlights Canadian talent
Category: Arts & Culture
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Tales of love and lust
February 12, 1997
By Patricia Grysiewicz A three-foot-long phallus, flashing lights and a stage full of actors who strip down to their underwear make Aristophanes’ Lysistrata hard to forget. Ryerson’s acting grads and director John Van Burek present Lysistrata and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this week in repertory. Two plays with similar themes, but obvious differences. In Lysistrata, […]
Freaky films
February 12, 1997
By David Redford Students tired of mindless trash coming out of Hollywood, have no fear, there is an alternative. A group of Ryerson media arts students, tired of what’s playing in mainstream theatres are taking money out of their own pockets to put on experimental films every Friday. “There aren’t a lot of venues for […]
Bonkers for Yonkers
February 12, 1997
By Jill Koskitalo Too often it seems that much of the theatre done in Toronto’s smaller venues tends to be deep, experimental drama. The sort of plays that leave the flamboyantly dressed, self-appointed theatre critics raving about how the naked midget was symbolic of our internal struggle for identity and the rest of us scratching […]
Kooky clown cabaret
February 5, 1997
Acting troupe not the traditional balloon animal and spraying flower type
Jammin’ with Jamiroquai
February 5, 1997
By Lee Fay “At the end of the day it’s a jazz fusion, jazz funk — a mish-mash.” This is how Stuart Zender, bassist for the British band Jamiroquai (a combinations of “jam” as in jamming and “Iroquai” as in “the misspelling of” the Native American Iroquois tribe), described his band’s sound at a press […]
TANJ salutes you
February 5, 1997
By Paul Sambla From the dark, secret practice room in the basement of a Scarborough dry-cleaning store, singer Richard Sabsay unveils the modest dreams he has for his hard-rock band, TANJ. “We don’t have any delusions of grandeur. We do not expect to be a bunch of Mick Jaggers. We just want to make a […]
Star (Wars) Struck
January 29, 1997
For one fan the magic will never be gone, but there's nothing like the first time
Maybe baby
January 29, 1997
Citizen Ruth satirizes abortion conflict
A helping hand for harmonicas
January 22, 1997
Toronto Blues Society putting on harmonica workshop
A cozy night with Tricky
January 22, 1997
By Lee Fay The setting is a lovely, multi-leveled British pub on Wellesley Street. The event is a press conference for British musician Tricky, set to play the Phoenix Concert Theatre later that night. Apparently winter is different in Bristol. “Tricky’s not used to the cold,” said the PR person for Island Records after a […]
Life in Mussolini’s Italy
January 22, 1997
By Theresa Ebden The Best Foreign Film from the 1971 Academy Awards, detailing Mussolini’s Fascist regime in World War II, has been revamped with new technology. Now playing at the Carleton cinema, The Gardens of the Fizni-Continis examines intimate details of the vitctim’s lives. Class division among the Italian-Jewish community determines the different families’ responses […]
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