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Moderated Discussion: Bashir Lazhar: A Portrait of the Immigrant Experience
Theatre Projects Manitoba (TPM) is pleased to host a forum to discuss the refugee experience in Manitoba as part of its current production, Bashir Lazhar by Evelyne de la Chenelière. Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 6:30 pm Winnipeg Free Press News Café – 237 McDermot Avenue Moderated by Sean Kavanagh, CBC Manitoba Panelists: Abdikheir Ahmed- [...]
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CBC Review: “Bashir Lazhar” offers rewarding lessons in life, loss, and hope
Joff Schmidt, CBC Manitoba There’s something sadly, terrifyingly beautiful in the set the greets the audience entering Theatre Projects Manitoba’s production of Bashir Lazhar. A twisted wreck of school desks, bright orange plastic chairs, and the remnants of window frames, it’s a scene that implies something unthinkable has happened – and yet also suggests the [...]
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“This play stays with you like that special teacher you never forget”
The Winnipeg Free Press review is in: Four & a half stars! “Deceptively simple but deeply affecting” “David Adam’s delivers an exceptional understated performance!” At first glance at the spectacular set of the stage drama Bashir Lazhar, it looks like a bomb has gone off in the classroom of a French-langauge school in Montreal. For [...]
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Bashir Lazhar opens March 14th!
This week we kicked off rehearsal’s for Bashir Lazhar at the Crescent Fort Rouge United Church! On Monday, February 18th, the full Artistic Team gathered in the warm & sunny 2nd floor space that will be witness to the delicate process of building this new production of Evelyne de la Chenelière’s acclaimed play. Our intrepid [...]
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January Salon: And Slowly Beauty. . .
We continue our collaboration with our friends at zone41 theatre after presenting Bruce McManus’ adaptation of Three Sisters together last season. This year, TPM is exploring French Canadian works in translation and zone41 will be at our January Salon with a reading of… And Slowly Beauty… by Michel Nadeau translated by Maureen Labonté When Mr. Mann wins tickets to [...]
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Join us at our Holiday Salon – Monday December 3rd
Our monthly theatre mash ups continue this Monday, December 3rd with a special Holiday Salon featuring the Fu Fu Chi Chi Choir! Join us at The Folk Exchange – 211 Bannatyne for an evening of music and theatre as well as the return of the TPM Photo Booth! As you enter the lobby, you can [...]
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CBC Review: Heiress looking for a man to seduce her…and you can watch
It’s the audience who is ultimately rewarded with this sparkling, fantastical romantic comedy. —Joff Schmidt, CBC Scene theatre reviewer A wealthy heiress offers a “substantial reward” to the man who can successfully seduce her – this is the premise that kicks off Quebecois playwright Carole Fréchette’s John and Beatrice, which opens Theatre Projects Manitoba’s season. [...]
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Winnipeg Free Press Review: “unpredictable and irresistible” John & Beatrice – Four Stars!!!
Locked-in romance leaves a lot to talk about by Kevin Prokosh November 3rd, 2012 (transcribed from Winnipeg Free Press print edition) Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess with waist length blonde hair, inhabiting a tower where handsome suitors came to win her heart & kingdom. That’s the story John understands when he [...]
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Seriously fun preview scene of John & Beatrice on CBC SCENE!
The talented Kevin Klassen & Tracy Penner dish it up as John & Beatrice in the first home grown production of Carole Fréchette’s incredible, international play. The CBC came by the theatre today to bring you a sneak peek at a scene and a preview of our Season Opener – John & Beatrice!
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THEATRE PROJECTS MANITOBA ANNOUNCES 2013/14 SEASON