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Subject: [SG1_spoilme] Kate Hewlett / Brendan Gall
To: sg1_spoilme@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, 7 January, 2009, 11:22 PM

http://torontoist. com/2009/ 01/drama_ club_back_ to_berlin. php

EXCERPT:

BRENDAN GALL
January 7 2009
Drama Club: Back to Berlin
East of Berlin tells the story of Rudi (played by the talented Brendan Gall),
a young man growing up in Paraguay who has no idea his father used to be a
Nazi doctor in concentration camps. When his close friend finally reveals the
truth, he begins a journey to find out who he is (and how he can be different
from his father) that takes him from Paraguay to Berlin and back again. The
show, peppered with Moscovitch's insightful and often cutting dialogue, was a huge
hit when it played at Tarragon back in 2007, making it an obvious choice for
the "Greatest Hits" package of remounts the theatre has included in its
current season, which also featured Wajdi Mouawad's Scorched and the upcoming
remount of Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View.

KATE HEWLETT
Also Opening This Week

Only in its second year, the Next Stage Theatre Festival is already
attracting some serious attention. A sort of wintery stepchild to the Fringe, the Next
Stage draws its programming from eight companies who have previously performed
at the summer festival. There's even a heated beer tent! One show from last
year's festival had a successful off-Broadway remount; another was nominated
for a number of Doras. Tonight, things start at 7:00 p.m. with a clown show
called L'Ange Avec Les Fleurs. At 7:15 p.m., it's incest comedy Don't Look,
directed by the talented Maya Rabinovitch (who directed one of our favourite shows
at last summer's Fringe). Then at 9:00 P.M., it's First Hand Woman, which
promises "spontaneous simulated orgasms," if that's your thing. Finally, at 9:15
p.m. it's The Rake's Progress: Do You Know Where Tom Rakewell Is?, a show that
claims to be adapted from a Stravinsky opera and Hogarth engravings. Also at
the festival are: Take it Back, a show that fuses Lindy Hop with breakdancing;
Humans Anonymous, written by Kate Hewlett who wrote last Fringe's fabulous The
Swearing Jar; collective musical exploration Reesor; and Yichud/Seclusion, a
new show by Torontoist favourite Convergence Theatre. Next Stage runs at
Factory until January 18.

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