Tag Archives: National Arts Centre
Seasonal Offering
You know we live in a weird world when people will pay $50 or $100 to hear someone recite a 400-year-old Bible translation set to music. On an unseasonably warm Ottawa night a couple of weeks ago two thousand people paid to attend something you wouldn’t expect to be popular in our post-Christian society: a […]
A Christmas Carol
It is a timeless biblical story of redemption and grace without reference to any scripture. But watching a production of A Christmas Carol you somehow feel that Charles Dickens knew what he was doing. A version of the stage play is at Canada’s National Arts Centre until December 31. I was there Friday night and […]
Two Lovers And A Bear
At the Cannes and Toronto film festivals earlier this year it garnered considerable acclaim, so I jumped at the chance to see Two Lovers and a Bear last month before it hit the theatres (it comes out in the US this Friday). It was also chance to see the recently refurbished National Arts Centre. […]
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