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Angela Lansbury and Quebec

Madame Arcati: His output has included Venise-en-Québec , a dark holiday in a down-the-rabbit-hole version of rural Quebec; Félicité , a nightmarish mediation on celebrity told by a chorus of Wal-Mart employees; and Nom de domaine , which saw a family work through their grief by joining a multiplayer online role-playing game that immersed them in 1920s Quebec, according to Globe and Mail. More Related to this StoryA close encounter with Damien Atkins has potentialreview The Wild Party: A Jazz Age excursion packed with riveting performancesThe Sound of Cracking Bones: an artless exercise in consciousness raising Veteran actor Angela Lansbury hits the Toronto stage in the comedy "Blithe Spirit." Lansbury says she was born to play her Tony Award-winning role of Madame Arcati. The 41-year-old Quebec playwright, the most recent winner of the $100,000 Siminovitch Prize, has developed a reputation for a rather form-forward approach to theatre over the past decade. CP Video VideoVideo: Angela Lansbury says she is choosing the theatre over movies VideoVideo: Controversial play about Princess Diana opens in LondonAnd those scripts were all fairly inside the box compared with Choinière recent postdramatic works such as Chante avec moi, a satirical song cycle featuring 50 performers; and Project blanc, an audio-play intended to be secretly listened to while watching another theatre company production of Molière. You’ve seen it many times before. What makes Choinière Ennemi public a surprise, then, is that it takes a very conventional shape: It a play about a dinner party that goes awry, hosted by a dysfunctional family that meant to stand in for society at large. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.