King Leary, by Paul Quarrington

As I currently make my way through the last of this year’s Canada Reads nominees, with the encouragement of the last KIRBC meeting, I thought I’d take a gander at last year’s surprise winner King Leary. Of course from a publishing point of view, it was an interesting story that demonstrates the power of Canada [...]

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To be or not to be at Stratford? To Be!

I was recently at the Stratfod Shakespeare Festival and saw their wonderful production of Hamlet that runs until October 26th. What I enjoyed most was how the play just lived: There was nothing gimmicky, and you never felt like one particular perspective was being pushed down your throat. I think sometimes with Shakespeare, there [...]

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Great Literary TV

I recently had the good fortune to be introduced to the short-lived Canadian series, Slings and Arrows. As theatre is supposed to bring plays to life, Slings and Arrows brings the theatre to life. It satirizes the thinly disguised Stratford Festival and the corporate controlled state of modern theatre with a dash of British humour [...]

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