As you can imagine, cross-casting Shakespeare is something I’ve thought about a lot — in Ha’Penny, the female protagonist is an actress cast as Hamlet because cross-casting is this year’s fad in alternate history 1949. Ursula Le Guin talked on…

Last night we went to see a production of The Bacchae at McGill. I’ve wanted to see The Bacchae since, oh, since I read The Mask of Apollo, so let’s call that an even thirty years. It’s not performed very…

Directed by Madd Harold, at the main stage of the Saidye Bronfmann, with a budget. The Tempest the way Madd Harold directs it is not a play about some funny people on an island, it’s a play about a man…

Tom Stoppard is definitely a genius; in fact he’s clearly one of those geniuses who are proverbially close to madness. We saw Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth at the Player’s Theatre in McGill, performed by the same university group who put…