The Rat Pack Jazz

FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 9PM: Dick Powell’s In the Mood for Jazz - $20An irreverent, satirical take on Hollywood's Golden Age. Black & white comes to life in this absurd spectacle of music and celebrity. Dick Powell returns to the stage after a twenty two year hiatus. Featuring: Dick Powell, Laura Thornton, Buck Wheaton (drums), Paco Bertolucci (guitar), Sandy Beaches (double bass), Shorty Benton (piano) and Buster Nelligan (alto sax, flute).
Rat Pack comedy/jazz show- In the Mood for Jazz
Written and created by Patrick Costello and Graham Cuthbertson with the help of Angela Galuppo and The Buck Wheaton Trio. Bar service an hour before the show.

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None of the Above

Written by Jenny Lyn Bader
Directed by Trevor Barrette & Michelle Lewis

Mark these dates in your fall calendar
Tuesday, November 26 – Saturday, November 30, 2013
Only seven performances!

Jamie, 17, a sophisticated New York City private school student, answers the door one day expecting her drug dealer - and instead finds her SAT tutor.

Things degenerate from there. But as the play progresses, Jamie and Clark negotiate an unusual pact. 

With Lily MacLean and Scott Humphrey

None of the AboveKaleidoscope Theatre MontrealAt MainLine Theatre,
3997 St-Laurent, Nov. 26-30
Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm, Tuesday and Saturday matinee at 2:00pm
Tickets for the preview, Tues. Nov. 26 at 2pm, are $12
Tickets for Saturday matinee, Nov. 30 at 2pm are 2-for-1 (at the door only)

Tickets: $20, $15 (students/seniors), $12 (groups)
Reservations: 514 849-3378
or online:www.mainlinetheatre.ca/en/spectacles/none-of-the-above-by-jenny-lyn-bader

Kaleidoscope Theatre Montreal was founded in 2011 by actor, director and playwright Trevor Barrette. The company’s mission is to work with emerging and young professional artists in the Montreal community to produce visually dynamic theatre focusing on storytelling. The company is accessible to all, but most importantly, encourages a young adult audience.

Kaleidoscope Theatre Montreal’s first production, presented in the summer of 2011, was a post-modern dystopian retelling of Sophocles’ Antigone set in a war-torn Thebes, featuring a cast of twenty. The following year they created ‘a brave new world’ with their steam-punk version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Canadian premiere of Jenny Lyn Bader’s None of the Above, a contemporary two-hander almost-romantic comedy about the things people do for money, grades and love, is their third production.

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If We Were Birds

Fabulously written, fabulously interpreted.

Purposely destroying innocence or happiness for self blood-pleasure should be a crime. Because it is a crime.

This play is extremely strong, yet entertainingly displayed. The words and the destructive actions described   are to the utmost powerful while the manner in which the outrageous manners are depicted and brought to the consciousness of the public is smoothly chewed up.

Everything in If We Were Birds is simple and effective. From the set to the images used, and the setting in Ancient Greece.

Almost religious and jazzy
All actresses and actors are great in their respective roles, especially so the young girl played by Amella Sargisson who masters the expression and feelings of skin dirt and desperation, the cries and finally the acted upon idea to get herself out of the abusive situation. ''It's my blood'', he claims screamingly while locking her up in order to leave her no way for her cries to be heard. You can't help but think of so many women locked up in so many ways that are left totally uncared about by male-driven worlds, be they religious or other blood-ridden variables. The five-women chorus - each representing different daily life or male war abuse situations - is jazzy in beat, nature and sound.

Extremely well done!

If We Were Birds is currently playing at the Montreal Centaur Theatre. Here are the details:

If We Were Birds

An Imago Theatre production, Centaur Theatre’s Brave New Looks selection for 2013

At Centaur Theatre, October 9-19

453 St. François-Xavier, Montreal
Wednesday to Saturday at 8:30 pm,
Saturday and Sunday matinee at 2:30pm

There will be a talkback after each performance.

All matinees, October 12, 13 and 19, are pay-what-you-can (Suggested donation $10)
Tickets: $25, $18 (students/seniors/Centaur subscribers/artists)
Box Office: 514 288-3161 or online: http://www.centaurtheatre.com/tickets.php
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Kafka’s Ape

Based on Kafka’s short story, A Report to an Academy
Adapted from the original German by Guy Sprung
Directed by Guy Sprung

Captured on the Gold Coast and imprisoned in a cage, Redpeter’s only escape route is to become a walking, talking, spitting, hard-drinking member of the Peace Industry, the entrepreneurial world of mercenary soldiers. In detailing the journey of his enforced evolution from apedom to humandom, Mr. Redpeter is a living embodiment of the irony that perhaps now he is more animal than he ever was as an ape.

Starring Howard Rosenstein, with Alexandra Montagnese

Kafka’s Ape
Infinithéâtre at Bain St-Michel
5300, rue St-Dominique (corner Maguire)

Thursday, November 7 – Sunday, November 24, 2013

Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm, Sunday matinée at 2:00pm
Tickets: $17-$25, Infinithéâtre 6pack available
Sunday, November 10 is pay-what-you-can
Tickets: 514 987-1774 ext. 104 or online at www.infinitheatre.com

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Other upcoming Infinitheatre shows:
The Pipeline, Dec. 4-8
Infinithéâtre’s annual series of free public readings, presenting three new Québec plays
Hanafuda Denki (The Dance of Death), Jan. 13-18
A Goth-Manga-Kabuki-Pop gender-bending musical treat for the senses

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