Soulpepper production of Almighty Voice and His Wife fully reveals the audacious work’s beauty

  • 📰 globeandmail
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 50 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Qulity Score:
  • News: 23%
  • Publisher: 92%

Soulpepper production of Almighty Voice and His Wife fully reveals the audacious work’s beauty GlobeArts

Canada Headlines News

Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines

Ladies and gentlemen! Non-binary and two-spirit! May I present to you the amazing true story of Almighty Voice, Cree outlaw and folk hero, and his ride-or-die wife, the fierce White Girl!Almighty Voice and His Wife

Both sides get a powerful treatment in Soulpepper’s landmark production – the first time the company has staged a work by an Indigenous Canadian playwright. I’ll admit I didn’t see the play’s previous major Toronto production, at Native Earth 10 years ago, but I suspect this one may be definitive. Directed with finesse by Jani Lauzon and performed with great spirit and charm by Michaela Washburn and James Dallas Smith, it fully discloses the play’s beauty and its audacity.

It’s a tender tale of love growing through adversity, by turns funny, sexy and moving, a sort of First Nations, with poetic passages and an elegant nine-scene structure that echoes the phases of the moon.

As the Ghost is put through his paces, singing, dancing and mugging, Moses heaps on every Indigenous cliché imaginable, from the relatively benign to the increasingly hateful, all delivered via a stream of bad puns, worse shtick and – in this production – goofy cartoon sound effects.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 5. in CA
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Doug Ford government started work on cuts to Toronto City Council a day after election winDocuments obtained by The Globe and Mail reveal that bureaucrats quickly got to work – timing that suggests the move was an undisclosed top priority for the newly elected Premier They wasted no time, the only way to make changes. In my business, there’s 90 days to get the tough stuff done. Radical change demands it. Good Could have cut even more as far as I am concerned Cry baby rage cutting the council cuz he didn’t become mayor
Source: globeandmail - 🏆 5. / 92 Read more »

Chris Knight: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil has many winged characters, but still fails to take flightChris Knight reviews the sequel to Disney’s 2014 retelling of the story of Sleeping Beauty Just crap
Source: nationalpost - 🏆 10. / 80 Read more »

Those looking to enjoy the Rockies will be rewarded in Golden, B.C.As Matt Coté writes, it has all the beauty of Lake Louise without the crowds
Source: globeandmail - 🏆 5. / 92 Read more »

Barrick Gold estimates lower third-quarter gold productionTotal gold production totaled 1.31 million ounces, lower than the second quarter’s 1.35 million ounces
Source: globeandmail - 🏆 5. / 92 Read more »

New cannabis production facility approved in Red Deer, ABNew cannabis production facility approved in Red Deer, AB via TheGrowthOp
Source: nationalpost - 🏆 10. / 80 Read more »

China’s GDP growth grinds to near 30-year low as tariffs hit productionGDP rose just 6.0 per cent year-on-year, marking a further loss of momentum for the economy from the second-quarter’s 6.2 per cent growth BeLightinHK globebusiness
Source: globeandmail - 🏆 5. / 92 Read more »