Reviewer's Rating Escaped Alone Aparna Halpé 06/11/2018The set for the Canadian premiere of Caryl Churchill’s 2016 one-act play Escaped Alone—a spare, well-lit rectangle of floor space...
Reviewer's Rating Hadrian Aparna Halpé 22/10/2018The Canadian Opera Company’s new commission, Hadrian, proves without doubt that Contemporary Canadian Opera is alive and very well indeed....
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 11/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 04/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Coriolanus Aparna Halpé 11/07/2018One might dub 2018 the year of Robert Lepage. March saw the reprisal of his spectacular production for the Canadian...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Aparna Halpé 15/06/2018Whether you are a child, a casual visitor to the theatre, or a Shakespeare buff, Antoni Cimolino’s new production of...
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Aparna Halpé 13/05/2018The COC wraps up Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy with a new production of Anna Bolena, the tragic bel canto opera based...
Reviewer's Rating The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Aparna Halpé 30/04/2018It was with something akin to despair that I realized I was coming down with the flu two days before...
Reviewer's Rating Contemporaneity 2.0 Aparna Halpé 21/02/2018What would truth and reconciliation look like, sound like, feel like, if it arrived through the body-knowledge of Indigenous, Black...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
