The fusion of theatre and politics have been a long-standing tradition for centuries. Beginning with the ancient Greeks, playwrights have often used the stage as a way to voice their political viewpoints in thought-provoking and innovative ways.
Trent students and first-time playwrights Victoria Silvera and Lauren Roberts continue this tradition with their brand new play A Carnal Thing, being presented at The Theatre on King until April 12th.
Every day each one of us uses water, but it is a luxury we take for granted.
Here in the heart of the Kawarthas, water surrounds us — it is central to our survival, lifestyle and our economy.
Many people, faiths, and cultures recognize the sacredness of water. Locally, a group of individuals from a variety of different organizations and faiths have come together to celebrate water and to foster a community ethic that recognizes the deep connections we all share with this life giving entity.
Put together a dozen or more passionate parents — who long for their children with special needs to have a community — and a group of equally passionate volunteers who catch the spirit, and you have what is becoming known as the greatest new inspiration on ice in Peterborough.
At what point does homage become theft?
We are all students of Godard and Truffaut: masters who tore open the very fabric of film and reassembled the stale American state of affairs into their own visceral and subversive vocabularies.
Yes, the French New Wave is indisputably one of the crowning glories in film, and one whose shadow looms heavily over the catalogue of supposed auteur Wes Anderson.
New Stages Theatre Company has maintained its reputation of bringing high-quality professional theatre to Peterborough by staging Toronto playwright Jordi Mand’s critically acclaimed drama Between the Sheets at the Market Hall.
Directed by Randy Read and starring Linda Kash and Megan Murphy, Between the Sheets made its debut in 2012 at the Nightwood Theatre in Toronto.
I’m hesitant to proclaim it, given the recent wintry blasts we’ve experienced here in the Kawarthas, but I think we may have finally turned the corner into spring.
Over the weekend, when temperatures rose to near 10 degrees, it was evident the snow was rapidly disappearing and the brown landscape was finally revealing itself.
With the return of warmer days, we’re all starting to spend more and more time outside. Getting an early start on cleaning up garden beds or raking the yard are popular spring chores for many.
Even with ample snow still left to melt and mud quickly taking its place, I saw at least one neighbour out with a rake, already. Garden clean-up aside, a task that needs to be completed in the coming weeks is setting up composters for the year ahead.
PARN executive director Kim Dolan imagines a world without margins, one in which “welcome” is more than a word and much closer to a state of mind and a way of being.
On Wednesday, April 23, 2014, if you dine out at one of 16 participating restaurants in the Kawarthas, 25% of your bill will be donated to make life better for people in our community affected by HIV/AIDS.
April has finally brought the first signs of Spring and many chances to see excellent music in a variety of venues.
Here is just a taste of what’s heading our way this month.
The near-defunct genre known as the religious epic gets the aggressive 21st-century facelift that no one asked for in Noah. director Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited followup to his delirious Black Swan.
It’s easy to be dismissive of a film like this. Taken at face value (and a terrible marketing campaign), it has the strained box of a History Channel original production. But there is much to savour.
Evolutionary creationism has never been presented like this before. The frenetic montage technique that so memorably burned through every kind of narcotic abuse imaginable in Aronofsky’s breakthrough Requiem for a Dream now guides us through countless millennia of celestial evolution that includes gigantic obsidian angels.
Aronofsky’s growing body of work may seem intensely disparate, but beneath the veneer of much kinetic editing beats the common heart of overwhelming internal burden.
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