Winnipeg Free Press By: Randall King | Posted: 3:00 AM CDT Thursday, May. 6, 2021 Save to Read Later
Getting a play produced at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is a tough nut to crack for a local playwright. Four playwrights getting four RMTC debuts simultaneously feels like nothing less than a game-changer.
Getting a play produced at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is a tough nut to crack for a local playwright. Four playwrights getting four RMTC debuts simultaneously feels like nothing less than a game-changer.
But that became a reality for four local artists behind
Tiny Plays, Big Ideas, a set of four short works available online Friday via RMTC’s website. The show was originally set to be performed in person, promenade-style at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in November, before rising COVID-19 numbers in Manitoba scuttled those plans. The shows were moved to the RMTC mainstage where they could be safe
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In Treatment (season 4)
If ever there were a TV series tailor-made for filming (and watching) during a pandemic, it’s this one. Small casts, intimate scripts, no crowd scenes. Plus, mental illness, anxiety and depression are top of mind for many of us. The original American-made series (it was based on an Israeli property), starring Gabrielle Byrne as a therapist whose own life was coming apart, ended in 2010 after three seasons. Now three-time Emmy winner Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) play
submitted And while you might, if you’re lucky, be used to witnessing Moscovitch’s work live, this world premiere looks a little different, thanks to COVID-19. Rather than an in-person performance, you can watch
Post-Democracy while you shelter in place by purchasing a ticket to the pre-recorded, digital performance. (Wondering what a digital performance is? It’s a live recording of an acted piece sort of like watching a live concert DVD. Netflix’s Kerry Washington-starring
American Son is an example of the emerging medium but please believe me when I tell you that I’ve watched both, and Moscovitch’s piece is better.) One tiny scrap of silver lining in this whole pandemic is that it means you’ll get to see this show sans plane ticket, even though it’s being put on by Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange.
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Imagine working for over a decade on a play about leadership succession at a family-controlled corporation complicated by a sexual-harassment scandal – and then HBO coming along and premiering
Succession first. Bad timing, right?
Another way to look at it is that Hannah Moscovitch’s
Post-Democracy – which she was first commissioned to write in 2007 – is finally having its world premiere at the perfect moment, as fans of that television series on a similar subject are stuck at home waiting for Season 3 and hungry for more.
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Post-Democracy, a short, sharp stab at the 1 per cent and systemic sexism and racism in corporate environments, is available this month as a “digital production” from Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange. It’s essentially a quality recording of a stage production that hasn’t yet been able to meet a live, in-person audience.
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Filmed PTE production explores what happens to morality in a world of unlimited wealth, privilege and ambition
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Health protocols require (from left) Kristian Jordan, Stephanie Sy, Arne MacPherson and Alicia Johnston to be separated onstage; the staging works to show the characters’ alienation.
A scion of wealth has his powerful position threatened when it emerges he may have had a sexual encounter with an underage girl.
A scion of wealth has his powerful position threatened when it emerges he may have had a sexual encounter with an underage girl.
So yes, Toronto playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s new work,