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REVIEW: Freezing at the Gladstone (as evaluated by an eight-year-old)

[caption id=“attachment_19868” align=“aligncenter” width=“800”] Krisco (Chad Connell) and Beavertail (Cara Pantalone) from _ Freezing: The Musical _ [/caption]  Last weekend our family went to see ** _ Freezing _ ** at the Gladstone Theatre. It’s billed as “a fun-filled musical fairy tale for the whole family”, packed full of songs and bad puns. ...

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June 8-10, 12-13: A unique outdoor storytelling experience with The Global Savages

[caption id=“attachment_14591” align=“aligncenter” width=“580”] Experience the inspiration of The Global Savages. Photo credit: Peter van Beek[/caption] Canada’s ** Magnetic North Theatre Festival ** features 10 days of thought-provoking theatre and fun audience encounters from June 4-13 in Ottawa. One of the highlights of the festival is a pay-what-you-can outdoor performance of _ ** The Global Savages ** _ at the Rideau Canal Locks (below the Bytown Museum near the Ottawa River). ...

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New Professional Theatre Company helps Ottawa Theatre pass the Bechdel Test

Three Sisters mandate is to produce shows that not only have strong female roles, but offer opportunities for the considerable female talent in the Ottawa theatre community to collaborate with one another: the perfect formula for passing the Bechdel Test. What is now known as the Bechdel test was introduced in a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. ...

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A short review of Freezing at the Gladstone Theatre

We finally went to see Freezing at the Gladstone Theatre. It’s billed as a “witty, wintery family musical” and it certainly lived up to the billing. It’s a pun-filled interactive show full running just over 90 minutes with an intermission. The musical is set in the Snow Globe Kingdom, although it might as well be set in Ottawa for all of the references to Queensway traffic and corrupt politicians. ...