Pumphouse Theatre

Music for Contortionist strips away conventional norms and reveals the bloody heart beating within

barbara the bad tempered zombie — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 20:05:54 -0400

Can you display to the world the blood and sinew and capillaries through the glass cabinet doors in your chest? What will happen if you show people what is inside the sausage casing? Why are we obsessed with beauty? Is it possible to truly reveal yourself and somehow survive the scrutiny? How do you write a love song that is not sentimental? These are some of the questions raised by Music for Contortionist, the latest offering from Sage Theatre, and they are questions that only serve to propagate yet more questions rather than allow themselves to be easily answered. read more »

Blood Sunday: Tales from the Saville Inquiry

barbara the bad tempered zombie — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:32:20 -0400

The Liffey Players tackled an astonishingly ambitious project when they took it upon themselves to produce Bloody Sunday: Tales from the Saville Inquiry. The playwright, Richard Norton-Taylor gathered testimony from over 1000 inquiry witnesses, which he condensed into this courtroom drama.

This could not have been an easy play to produce and it is certainly not an easy play to watch. There are a number of reasons for this. read more »

How can you not love going to the Pumphouse?

barbara the bad tempered zombie — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:52:33 -0400

I love everything about going to the Pumphouse Theatre. I love the setting, a former pumphouse nestled amongst the trees along the Bow River, which admittedly, if you are first approaching it in the dark, is a trifle disconcerting, lying as it does on the edge of an industrial area that feels distinctly abandoned and sinister on a winter night. But the parking is easy and ample and right on the doorsteps of the Pumphouse Theatre itself. read more »