Ronnie Burkett’s show Little Willy opened at CanStage Berkeley Street on Friday night. It’s a puppet show like you have probably never seen before. It’s clever, it’s filthy and it’s very funny. Burkett is creator, puppeteer, actor and singer all rolled into one. The plot concerns a second rate, but very Canadian, theatre company attempting to stage a production of Romeo and Juliet. What ensues is frankly rather hard to describe.
UoT Opera’s annual Student Composer Collective production was presented on Sunday afternoon at CanStage Berkeley Street. This year Michael Patrick Albano’s libretto took three stories from antiquity and presented each twice; essentially in the original and then with a modern twist. The three stories were Antigone, Medea and Helen and five composers were involved in creating the music. Sandra Horst conducted with a seven piece ensemble on stage to one side.
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