Don’t look down

Duncan Macmillan’s play People, Places and Things opened last night at Coal Mine Theatre.  It premiered in London in 2015 and has now been adapted to relocate the setting to Toronto and to customize the movement elements to the small, intimate space at Coal Mine.  It’s a play about addiction, addiction treatment, theatre and how we construct and cope with “reality” (whatever that is).  It’s long, intense, disturbing and, ultimately, very thought provoking.

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Mad Madge

How different were sensibilities in seventeenth century England (at least after the Restoration) to contemporary mores?  Perhaps less than one might think.  Unless you are a woman.  And you want to be famous.  And you aren’t a queen.  All of which presents a problem for young Margaret who leaves her dull, impoverished, gentry family to try her luck at court just as Cromwell and co finally get around to giving Charles I a rather drastic haircut.

1 Rose Napoli in Mad Madge - Photo by Dahlia Katz

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