Review: Puppet-powered “Little Willy” Is a bawdy, boisterous love letter to the theatre
“What remains after all of the laughter is not a lampoon of Romeo and Juliet, but a provocation about why we gather..,” ~ Scott Sneddon
“What remains after all of the laughter is not a lampoon of Romeo and Juliet, but a provocation about why we gather..,” ~ Scott Sneddon
“Because the company, like the script, goes for broke, it consistently rewards the audience with something recognizably classic, yet appreciably new.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“…let me say that you should be there if you want to watch civic imagination and community coming to riotous life” ~Scott Sneddon
“Munsch’s recognizable, diverse characters—anchored in emotional truths about enduring family love and the power of imagination and aspiration; and embodied in this kinetic, visually rich production—still resonate.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“Is it a less‑fatal Romeo and Juliet: an exquisite and elegiac lament for two meant‑to‑be’s doomed to be cosmically out of sync? Or … is this the more human tale of two average young people pursuing what they think they want…?” ~ Scott Sneddon
“Throughout, Aquino’s direction is lucid and unsentimental, giving the actors motive‑driven velocity that marries well to that striking, movement-driven visual subtext.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“No matter what you expect from a synopsis or its Jacobean origins, you are certain to be surprised, engrossed and provoked by this incendiary brew.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“This is Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit: a fascinating, ingenious and discomfiting thought experiment, which operates on multiple levels and is almost impossible to talk about without spoiling.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“I intuitively knew that if I kept photographing large‑scale industries, at some point the world would meet me and understand what I was doing.” ~ Edward Burtynsky
“The inaugural “Dead of Winter” festival met the January moment with energy, variety, winking humour, and a refreshing lack of pretension.” ~ Scott Sneddon
“And like the best anthologies, you simply cannot hold the whole in your head: its contents spill out, leaving brilliant residues.” ~ Scott Sneddon