Each year, the University of Toronto Drama Coalition sponsors a festival at Hart House Theatre for students from each college to write, produce, direct, and star in original plays. Those plays are performed once each and judged by an expert in the field who will name, at the festival’s conclusion, its winners and losers. This year, blogUT will be attending and reporting on all of the plays at the 2012 U of T Drama Festival and letting you know how your college matches up to others in the dramatic arts.

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Each year, the University of Toronto Drama Coalition sponsors a festival at Hart House Theatre for students from each college to write, produce, direct, and star in original plays. Those plays are performed once each and judged by an expert in the field who will name, at the festival’s conclusion, its winners and losers. This year, blogUT will be attending and reporting on all of the plays at the 2012 U of T Drama Festival and letting you know how your college matches up to others in the dramatic arts. (more…)

Each year, the University of Toronto Drama Coalition sponsors a festival at Hart House Theatre for students from each college to write, produce, direct, and star in original plays. Those plays are performed once each and judged by an expert in the field who will name, at the festival’s conclusion, its winners and losers. This year, blogUT will be attending and reporting on all of the plays at the 2012 U of T Drama Festival and letting you know how your college matches up to others in the dramatic arts.

(more…)

Each year, the University of Toronto Drama Coalition sponsors a festival at Hart House Theatre for students from each college to write, produce, direct, and star in original plays. Those plays are performed once each and judged by an expert in the field who will name, at the festival’s conclusion, its winners and losers. This year, blogUT will be attending and reporting on all of the plays at the 2012 U of T Drama Festival and letting you know how your college matches up to others in the dramatic arts.

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I have taken the adventurous step. I now have mail.utoronto.ca.

If you use Hotmail or the Window’s mail system then this shouldn’t be a whole new world for you. In fact it’s exactly like the Window’s Live emailing system… because that’s what it is. But for those who would like to get some information here’s a screenshot:

Let’s go through this!

1. This is your list of mail! Yay!
2. Here you find the different folders you can organize your mail into. You can create folders to organize yourself!
3. Reply, reply all, or forward. Other actions are there too.
4. You get your own calendar! And contact list! And tasks to keep yourself organized!
5. This is the interesting part: online messaging. If another friend is online at the same time then they should appear online. It seems I don’t have many friends since no one is ever online on this thing.

Short, sweet, and kinda-sorta-maybe-almost to the point.

That’s how I’d best describe the Trinity College Drama Society’s (TCDS) production of Woody Allen’s one-act play God, which ended a few weeks ago much to the chagrin of this belated reviewer.

The play revolves around a Greek playwright and actor who, while creating a new work, come to realize that they are merely characters in a piece by Woody Allen. Some faux-audience interaction later (really? The girl in costume and full make-up was actually part of the show?), a quest created by one of the show’s 29 characters and some existential queries propel the characters of God through a series of self-referential jokes about theatre, the meaning of life, and God. The script is light – just short of schticky – without sacrificing meaning.

Steven Conway’s direction goes a long way to give life to a play that was never meant to be staged.  Stars Willa Cowan and Arun Radhakrishnan keep the audience’s interest with their superb comedic timing. Cowan especially shines as Ancient Greek actor Diabetes, delivering her many punch lines with clarity and character. The rest of the expansive cast perform ably as well, given the difficulty of maintaining sincerity in a play that apparently has none, but occasionally mumble or lose a line due to what may be lack of energy in a hectic and chaotic piece.

Nic Farber’s set gives just enough Ancient Greek context without being too distracting and  the tricky transitions run off without a hitch. The same cannot be said for Raven Kaur’s costumes, which offer just a little bit too much knowledge of which cast members have tattoos and where the sound and lighting were strong.

Overall, God is a deep, meaningful journey into the fundamental questions of human existence that isn’t afraid to laugh at itself and everything around. The cast keeps the audience laughing and the production values are excellent, making God an enjoyable fifty minutes or so of theatre.

Unfortunately, God’s run has ended.

If you are interested in TCDS’ plays, check out their shows in the upcoming Hart House Drama Festival and their production of Spring Awakening this March.

For more information about PARTY FOR A CAUSE, visit their facebook page.