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Familiar battles take the stage

By rea | Published: November 9, 2009
The Second World War serves as a backdrop for the conflict between a father and daughter in Linda Griffiths’ The Last Dog of War Jared Story Familiar battles take the stageWith Remembrance Day approaching, it’s fitting that Theatre Projects Manitoba’s first production of the season is The Last Dog of War, running Nov. 5 to [...]
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A self-portrait of sorts

By rea | Published: May 8, 2009
Local actor/playwright Ross McMillan tackles a familiar subject in his latest work, The Daffodil Man Barb Stewart, Uptown Theatre Projects Manitoba is producing a brand new play by acclaimed local actor/playwright Ross McMillan called The Daffodil Man, as part of its yearly In the Chamber series. The series, which features a work-in-progress by a local [...]
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Play wins arousing round of applause

By rea | Published: March 23, 2009
By: Kevin Prokosh, Winnipeg Free Press Photo Caption:  Krista Jackson, Patricia Hunter and Maggie Nagle snap, crackle and virtually pop out of their corsets. The Victorian era was no time to be a lady. Women were expected to be weak and helpless, their raison d’etre only to marry. That they largely outnumbered men in 1885 [...]
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Loose women

By rea | Published: March 20, 2009
Canadian playwright unlaces the corset of the Victorian age in popular new play The actress/playwright Linda Griffiths was pawing through the buck bin outside a Toronto used bookstore when she came upon a beat-up copy of The Odd Women.  After noting the author of the 1893 novel was somebody named George Gissing, she flipped it [...]
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Sexier than a bare ankle

By rea | Published: March 20, 2009
Sexier than a bare ankle Theatre Projects Manitoba’s production of Age of Arousal explores Victorian-era sexuality – but don’t expect a stuffy historical drama Barb Stewart – Uptown What if your innermost thoughts suddenly came popping out of your mouth?  You would probably be so horrified you would never leave the house – or open [...]
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Nothing Lost in Translation

By rea | Published: November 7, 2008
Nothing Lost In Translation Uptown, November 6th, 2008 French-language playwright Marc Prescott’s Encore is adapted in English – and it’s still every bit as moving A- Relatively unknown by anglophone theatre audiences in Manitoba, Winnipegger Marc Prescott is nonetheless an award-winning French-language playwright, actor and director. Theatre Projects Manitoba is attempting to change this dichotomy [...]
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Can I get an Encore?

By rea | Published: November 6, 2008
Can I get an encore? Theatre Projects Manitoba kicks off their season with a crowd-pleasing play by a bad boy playwright Brittany Thiessen, The Uniter Uniter preview The English-language debut of a play by the self-proclaimed “bad boy of Franco-Manitoban theatre” kicks off Theatre Projects Manitoba’s season this week. Written by Marc Prescott, Encore is [...]
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