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Tom McCamus: Ground Control
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| Glenn's Pets |
[Sep. 1st, 2007|04:04 pm] |
Glenn's Pets, Part One and Two fit Gould celebration, exploration
DANIEL ARIARATNAM
RECORD STAFF
STRATFORD
There are some works that just don't fit nicely into boxes or categories.
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Taken from: http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/230069 |
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| An Ideal Husband: Something Wilde |
[Aug. 28th, 2007|12:28 pm] |
Friday, August 24, 2007
An Ideal Husband: Something Wilde
From the Stratford Festival of Canada:
Who am I to argue with Richard Monette, the artistic director of the Stratford Festival? From the program notes for the Stratford production of An Ideal Husband:
From the time of [Richard Brinsley] Sheridan -- about a hundred years before -- until Wilde, there isn't a single play we produce now. During that hundred years, more people went to the theatre than ever before, but the plays were mediocre. So the works of Oscar Wilde represent a renewal of excellence in English dramatic literature.
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Taken from: http://barkbarkwoofwoof.blogspot.com/2007/08/ideal-husband-something-wilde.html |
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| Cast stumbles on uneven Wilde plot |
[Aug. 28th, 2007|12:26 pm] |
Cast stumbles on uneven Wilde plot
Jamie Portman, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Thursday, August 23, 2007
STRATFORD, Ont. - There's nothing like some delicious villainy to spice up a summer theatre season. And it's served up in spades by Dixie Seatle in her performance as a conniving blackmailer in the Stratford Festival's production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
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Taken from: http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=2a39e852-3117-4ecf-acfa-fcaadc7aba01 |
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| Monette bows out with hollow Husband |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|01:39 pm] |
Monette bows out with hollow Husband
Aug 13, 2007 04:30 AM
Richard Ouzounian
Theatre Critic
An Ideal Husband
2 stars (out of 4)
By Oscar Wilde. Directed by Richard Monette. Until Oct. 27 at the Festival Theatre. 1-800-567-1600
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Taken from: http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/245661 |
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| Bard-like take on Wilde a triumph |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|01:34 pm] |
Bard-like take on Wilde a triumph
Outgoing artistic director Monette chooses Ideal Husband, with themes of scandal, corruption, for his final Stratford production
August 14, 2007
ROBERT REID
RECORD STAFF
STRATFORD
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Taken from: http://news.therecord.com/arts/article/228067 |
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| McCamus caught break when hired on by Hutt |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|01:28 pm] |
McCamus caught break when hired on by Hutt
Wed, July 11, 2007
Working in the Grand's Young Company led to Stratford and Shaw.
By JAMES REANEY, SUN MEDIA
Born in Winnipeg in 1955, Tom McCamus's family moved to London in 1965 when his father came here for a head office job with Labatt.
He is in eighth season at the Stratford Festival. Artistic director Richard Monette asked him to join the company more than 10 years ago. McCamus has also played eight years at the Shaw Festival.
His film and television credits and selected awards include I Love a Man in Uniform (Genie award), Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Sweet Hereafter, Possible Worlds and Waking up Wally: The Walter Gretzky Story (Gemini and ACTRA awards).
Atom Egoyan, director of The Sweet Hereafter, often attends McCamus's stage performances.
Stratford 2007 roles: Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors; Sir Robert Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, which opens Aug. 11.
Stratford moment: "Richard's the one who asked me to come here in the first place in 1994 . . . I guess the moments are sitting around the table and talking about the script. It always reminds Richard about some story and it always has to do with something in the play." London roots: "I worked with Art Fidler at Oakridge . . . for a year after high school, I was with the Young Company under Heinar Piller" at Theatre London, a forerunner to the Grand. Alec Stockwell was the director of the Young Company. "Alec had gone to the University of Windsor and he convinced me to go to university there. The actual turning -- about making a decision to become an actor -- was at Windsor."
Biggest career break: "Right out of university, I got hired by Bill Hutt's Young Company at the Grand. That led to everything else" . . . including work at the Stratford and Shaw festivals and meeting new friends. "I've stayed close with them and I'm still working with a lot of them."
Personal: Married to Stratford actor Chick Reid, lives in Warkworth. She raises Nova Scotia duck tolling retrievers. He turns 52 this month.
Education: Bishop Townshend public school; Oakridge secondary school; University of Windsor (for drama).
Family: Son of John and Betty McCamus of London.
If it weren't for this career . . . "I wanted to be a writer. One of the reasons I went to Windsor was Joyce Carol Oates was the writer-in-residence there . . . I always thought that would be a possibility."
What's next: McCamus is to play in an adaptation of Misery by U.S. horror writer Stephen King, with Dora-winning actor Nicola Cavendish next spring at Toronto's CanStage.
Taken from: http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2007/07/11/4330161-sun.html |
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| Curtain falls on theatre legend |
[Jun. 29th, 2007|08:48 pm] |
Curtain falls on theatre legend
Thu, June 28, 2007
He called his magnificent voice a gift from God; colleagues credit his insight and power on the stage.
By KATHY RUMLESKI AND JAMES REANEY, SUN MEDIA
Canadian theatre legend William Hutt didn't need any encore to win raves and respect as one of Canada's greatest actors.
Hutt, who performed in New York, Toronto and London, England, is best remembered for his remarkable four-decade career at Stratford Festival. He died yesterday in Stratford at the age of 87.
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| Shake Hands With The Devil |
[Mar. 17th, 2007|11:19 pm] |
Despite the fact that they persist on spelling his name incorrectly, Tom is in this movie about Canadian soldiers during the Rwandan genocide.
The film's official website is here: http://www.dallairemovie.com/index.html
Looks like a very interesting subject, and it could be an intriguing film. |
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| The Unanswered Question |
[Mar. 17th, 2007|11:03 pm] |
The Unanswered Question
(Studio Theater/National Arts Center, Ottawa; 300 Seats; C$35 ($30) Top)
By IRIS WINSTONA National Arts Center presentation of a play in two acts by Martin Julien. Directed by Diana LeBlanc.
Leonard Bernstein - Tom McCamus
Felicia Montealegre - Chick Reid
Tom Cothran - Graeme Somerville
An interesting exercise does not always translate into compelling drama, even if the subject -- composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein -- is one of the major genre-hopping musical influences of the 20th century. This is the case with Martin Julien's "The Unanswered Question," having its world premiere at the National Arts Center in Ottawa.
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Taken from: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933067.html?categoryid=33&cs=1 |
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