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About Ronald Weihs
Ronald Weihs is a playwright and theatre director. He and his partner Judith Sandiford publishedArtword Artist’s Forum from 1989 to 1993. They created and operated Artword Theatre and Gallery in Toronto from 1994 to 2006. In Hamilton, from 2009 to 2019, they ran Artword Artbar, a music and theatre venue in downtown Hamilton.
About Judith Sandiford
Judith Sandiford has been a visual artist on-and-off since her art-school days. She also been, among other things, a typesetter, a journalist, a magazine editor, an art gallery administrator, and, since she met Ron, a theatre designer.
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From Morning to Midnight, at the National
Written in 1912, Georg Kaiser’s expressionist drama From Morning to Midnight has been given a bravura treatment in a new version by Dennis Kelly. I joined the queue for day seats at 8:30 on a Wednesday, and snagged two matinee tickets, along with two evening tickets for the second preview of King Lear. What a day of theatre it was!… Read the rest
Posted in London UK, Theatre
Tagged Adam Godley, Dennis Kelly, From Morning to Midnight, Georg Kaiser, National Theatre
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Women of Twilight by Sylvia Rayman
One of the highlights of our visit to London was a most ambitious production at the White Bear, a tiny pub theatre in South London. It was Women of Twilight, Sylvia Rayman’s all-women play from 1951, powerfully performed by a profit-share company of eleven, appropriately called 11F.
Unmarried women who find themselves pregnant are driven by desperation to take … Read the rest
Posted in London UK, Theatre
Tagged 11F, Sylvia Rayman, White Bear, Women of Twilight
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Adini Söyle / Say Your Name, at the Arcola
The Arcola Theatre, up in rough-and-tumble Dalston, is a hotbed of alternative vitality, always trying out new ideas and approaches, politically engaged, with a perspective that spans the globe. The theatre, formerly in a rambling industrial building on Arcola Street, moved a few blocks south in January 2011, a few steps from the Dalston Junction overground station.
The area … Read the rest
Posted in London UK, Theatre
Tagged Arcola Theatre, Dalston, Gezi Park, London, Turkish
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Protest Song, at The Shed
The Occupy movement in London had its camp in the square outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, a location that was already occupied by “rough sleepers”, the current British term for what in North Armerica are called “street people”. A new one-person play, Protest Song, by Tim Price, imagines the interaction between one rough sleeper, Danny, and the young idealists who … Read the rest
Posted in London UK, Theatre
Tagged National Theatre, Occupy movement, Protest Song, Rhys Ifans, St. Paul's, The Shed, Tim Price
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