Two years ago, in November, my husband and I visited London to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. We’d heard about London’s West End and booked theatre reservations for five of our six days. However, by midweek, we realized we were skimming the surface; there was more to London than theatre. Samuel Johnson had observed something…
The Mind Mappers by Eric Andrew-Gee is a gripping read of history, obsession, friendship, and betrayal. The history is ours – Canadian. The obsession is the quest by neurosurgeons William Cone and Wilder Penfield to map areas of the brain and their links to function. The friendship and, ultimately, the betrayal are between the same…
Books and theatre are my chocolate. They spike the pleasure receptors in my brain. While theatre offers a two-hour burst of engagement and immersion, books render a more leisurely gratification. Traditionally, I read at bedtime, a few chapters each night, much like nibbling at a square of dark chocolate infused with hot pepper. But occasionally…
I’ve been thinking about milestones of late. They’re important because they mark progress toward a goal…a physical trail, a work plan or a life journey. I’ve been marking several on the environmental front, but missing just as many on my creative work. The past seventeen months have been a period of hitting milestones on an…
Remember being sixteen, getting your driver’s licence and thinking you were all grown-up? Maybe that feeling lasted until you lost your virginity. In fifteen minutes, you had been introduced to the mysteries of adulthood but were left wondering, “Is that all there is? Could there be more to being grown-up?” And yes, there was. Like…
Readers of this blog will know that I have a love-hate relationship with musicals. It’s not that I dislike musicals in general; it’s the musical with unhummable music that I dislike. So it was with some trepidation that I viewed the stage at Theatre Aquarius for Boy Falls From the Sky. It was set with…
The island has no electricity, no Wi-Fi, and no running water.
If you loved Come From Away and The Last Ship, then MAGGIE is the hat-trick. Community. Family. Motherhood. Sons. Girlfriends. This play has it all.
Al fresco dining and stimulating conversations are indeed theatre foreplay.
Time and space expands at Lake Temagami.
Bonnie Lendrum 