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Here we go again: California sinks in Here we go again: California sinks in "2012"

Apparently, if the apocalypse arrives, Amanda Peet will survive.  While this is good news for any warm-blooded male who also survives, it does seem a bit improbable.  However, 2012 establishes early that it isn’t overly concerned with probabilities, including as it does the melting of the Earth’s crust, the reversal of the Earth’s polarity and the near-complete annihilation of mankind by natural forces… three years from now.

Dahlia Harris and Everaldo Creary in Dahlia Harris and Everaldo Creary in "Me and Mi Chapsie"

Me and Mi Chapsie

November 6, 2009

In Aston Cooke’s world, to be Jamaican is to be a performer. His new play, Me and Mi Chapsie, is a humourous treatise on that idea.

The way he made us feelThe way he made us feel

This Is It

November 3, 2009

“This Is It” gives us Michael’s last rehearsals, and a glimpse of the man in the smoke and mirrors. Is it a tribute, or exploitation?

PSSST!/dark diaspora

October 30, 2009

Edna Manley’s twin short plays were let down by their architects, not by the bright-eyed, bustling students who performed them. Does the school know what role it is playing?

Ferrell, Friel and McBride in Ferrell, Friel and McBride in "Land of the Lost"

Land of the Lost

October 26, 2009

“Land of the Lost” aims for the college fraternity humour that currently dominates American film comedies—where men in their 20s and 30s are stuck in a perpetual adolescence.