The Bidding War

There was a certain amount of anticipatory buzz about Michael Ross Albert’s The Bidding War, directed by Paolo Santalucia, that opened at Crow’s Theatre on Wednesday night.  Crow’s has built rather a reputation for punchy, darkly humorous, Toronto-centric plays.  This time it’s basically a satire on the Toronto real estate market and the sharp practices of the real estate and property development industries and for the most part it hits the mark.

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Sex, death and despair; a Ukrainian tragedy

To Crow’s Theatre on Sunday to see Natal’ya Vorozhbit’s Bad Roads; translated by Sasha Dugdale.  It’s play set during the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.  It’s extremely skillfully and well constructed in six vignettes.  Collectively they explore aspects of the conflict; especially sexual violence and the dehumanising effects that war has on just about everybody caught up in it.

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