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Concert Review: Sunparlour Players, December 10, Great Hall

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Brian in Concerts | Leave a comment

If there is one thing that I hope people have taken away from my years of writing for the Panic Manual, it is this: I highly recommend that you go see the Sunparlour Players live. Judging by the size of crowds the band still gets in Toronto, either I have failed to be very convincing, or I’m just not being read by that many people.

Album Review: The Sunparlour Players – Us Little Devils [2011, Outside Music]

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Brian in Albums, Music | 1 Comment

Toronto – I find myself in something of a music rut lately. You know what I mean: it’s the sort of rut that sees you making lacklustre mix CD’s for the car filled with tunes you played to death five years ago and filling your mp3 player with old Nas and Four Tet albums for something a little different, that kind of thing. I could be getting old and nostalgic, ready to make the permanent switch to oldies and “light … →

SummerWorks Play Review: Hannah’s Turn, August 9

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Brian in Reviews, Summerworks, Theatre | Leave a comment

Toronto – If you were to make a list of great love affairs of the 20th century, you might not put Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger near the top. But Heidegger, a German philosopher who rather controversially joined and endorsed the Nazi Party in 1933, and Arendt, a Jewish thinker and student of Heidegger’s, had a torrid love affair when both were at the University of Freiburg. We know this in part because they wrote a stack of love letters … →

SummerWorks Play Review: Eurydice, August 8

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Brian in Reviews, Summerworks, Theatre | Leave a comment

Toronto – Is it weird that there seems to be great interest in ancient plays and myths in SummerWorks? Two years ago it was Gilgamesh, last year it was Iphigenia at Aulis, and this year there’s not one, but three: there’s Hero & Leander (which I haven’t seen but have heard good things about), there’s ONE, and there’s this show, which, like ONE, revisits the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Rather than being a total re-interpretation, Eurydice tells the story … →