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…
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…
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.
My muse returned this March; I’m thrilled. I began a new manuscript — fiction— that addresses literacy. I also revised the second manuscript on aging. This latter one has just come back from my editor and there is more work to do. Time set aside for the keyboard is now strictly reserved for creation and revision.
Next To Normal is a play about a family who may never achieve ‘normal’, but it is a family who will be content to live as close to normal as they can.
A compassionate take on the demise of a British shipyard.
Brent Thiessen’s smile radiates light, love and good-will.
I’ll begin with a confession. My husband and I drove into Toronto this week to see Charlie And The Chocolate Factory having never read the book, nor seen the movies*. The thought at top of mind as we sat in traffic was, Why are we going to see another bloody musical, and a children’s production…
There are public nightmares, and then there are private terrors. We know the former well, or think we do, as they repeat themselves on the news cycle. But a diagnosis for which there is no treatment can be equally harrowing as it slowly and persistently shreds the core of self and family. Dementia is one…
O’Flaherty V.C. is the quintessential Shavian play. The time period is World War I; the setting is just before tea-time in the courtyard of a general’s manor house. In the space of a forty-five minute one act play, Shaw skewers religion, politics, education, war, and the British class system. O’Flaherty V.C. is fast, funny, and provocative;…
Bonnie Lendrum 