Etiket: Critique
[Critique théâtre] “Mademoiselle Julie”, desire and disorder
The greatest actresses in the world have played the complex role of the young aristocrat imagined by August Strindberg in 1889. In Quebec, Louise Marleau, Sylvie Drapeau and Anne-Marie Cadieux…
[Critique] Clever tricks | The duty
Very often Bach is the base of a program of baroque music. He wanted to be, in this concert of the Violons du Roy imagined by the pianist Jeremy Denk,…
[Critique] The twists of the play “An enemy of the people”
Unless I’m mistaken, the last time a Montreal theater produced An enemy of the people dates back to 1990, when François Barbeau staged the play by the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen…
[Critique] “New Quebec”: The motionless journey
“There aren’t many people who don’t have Indians in the family”, launches a bar owner, and owner of almost all the shops in Schefferville, in Mathieu (Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, all with…
[Critique] Phil Roy’s new solo
Phil Roy’s second solo show is a direct extension of the one that preceded it. We find in Philou the subject, but also the tone and the delivery, the energy…
[Critique] “Deep Water”: Below the smooth surface of the waters
On the surface, Vic and Melinda, along with their daughter Trixie, are the perfect family. They are rich, handsome, and they hang out with lots of other people who are…
Classic Critique: Smooth and Smart Recovery
The course of the evolution of the pandemic led to the reopening of concert halls on the eve of a concert of Happy Ideas which thus became the first concert…
Critique “The bridges of Prague”: Prague wanderings
While enjoying a writing residency in Eastern Europe, Danielle Dussault soaked up the atmosphere of the places where Kafka lived, whose ghost was already hovering in Salamanders (The Instant, 2007).…
Critique “Fire”: all fire all flame
Playing with fire means taking the risk of getting burned. This is somewhat illustrated, but without a moral, by the story of the adulterous and destructive passion that Maria Pourchet,…
Critique of “The orange grove”: rain of hatred in the land of orange trees
Orange grove by Zad Moultaka on a libretto by Larry Tremblay was, in December 2020, the great project of 30 years of Chants Libres, an anniversary that fell in a…