Turn up for Speed-the-Plow

Turn up for Speed-the-Plow

What better way to celebrate a birthday than with corruption, misogyny, and betrayal? It’s the Belfry Theatre’s 40th anniversary season, and the first show on the program is Speed-the-Plow, by famed American playwright David Mamet. I attended on opening night, Sept....

Fringe Fest: Fallout leaves a mark

“Who would you bring to the end of the world?” and “What’s with the grapefruits?” aren’t questions you’d normally hear together, or questions you’d hear at all. But Markus Spodzieja and Jenson Kerr are hoping they’re the kind of questions...
Turn up for Speed-the-Plow

Fringe Fest: Two has us seeing double

The Martlet recently spoke with Two’s Kat Taddei and Colette Habel ahead of the show’s premiere. You can read it here. This review does contain some spoilers.  As I previously wrote in my preview for Two, a play created by a myriad of students from UVic...
Turn up for Speed-the-Plow

UVic duo team up for Fringe Festival debut

At this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, two shows called Two will take the stage. The humour of this coincidence isn’t lost on Colette Habel and Kat Taddei, respectively the director and writer of one of the Twos. If it sounds confusing, Habel and Taddei aren’t...

OUTstages makes a spectacular debut

The poster for OUTstages draws the eye with a gorgeous headshot of a drag queen in pink lipstick and pearls. I was intrigued by the festival’s tagline, “Victoria’s first queer theatre festival,” because the series of shows is just that — the first of its kind....