Sybilla Oritur

I love cheap theatre and every year i drag myself to at least one fringe production in the city i am currently living in. That probably doesn’t seem like a lot, but i have a love-hate relationship with Fringe fests that i imagine has much to do with how the density of productions really taps [...]

Within the first ten minutes of The Philanthropist, I had already found myself staring agawk with my hand over my mouth at the scenario on-stage. Billed as a dark comedy, this new play with Matthew Broderick as Philip, a philologist with no social skills but good intentions, was not misrepresented.
At intermission, I turned to my [...]

One art i definitely haven’t mastered is occupying myself on an airplane. If I do plan a snack for a flight without meal service, i inevitably end up eating it while waiting at the gate for boarding to commence. Because i don’t want to lug around extra weight in my bags, i frequently finish the [...]

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Zach, J.O. and i went to see Geordie Productions’ Little Prince on its opening night (Friday, Nov. 28th). Asides from the very eerie feeling walking up the escalator in the Guy-Concordia metro station and feeling both old and out-of-place in a locale usually associated with the familiar and comfortable, it was a stellar [...]

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Much of Shakespeare’s comedic corpus illudes me, but I am also of the belief that anything written by the bard builds character. What could be more typical of his vision than a play of gender reversal and improbable love relationships ending in not one but four weddings?
As You Like It contains not only [...]

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This past Saturday, i was lucky enough to attend a production of My Fair Lady. I will admit that i was a tad worried because the movie with Audrey Hepburn is one of my all-time favourites and it was going to be hard to live up to the comparison.
The singing and acting were [...]