Reviews

The student shows presented by the National Institute of Circus Arts are great opportunities to see the developing skills and security in performance of the students.

Of the two women portrayed in this bracing play by American Lauren Gunderson (‘America’s most frequently produced living playwright’ according to Time Out, New York), by far the better known is the two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie. She discovered and named radium and polonium and was the only person to win in physics and chemistry before women were allowed to vote. Along with her intense passion for science, and for sex, she was a passive-depressive, permanently wearing around her neck a vial of radium for comfort. Yikes.

Monkey Baa Theatre Company’s Where is the Green Sheep? is a warm, woolly burst of theatrical delight that springs straight from the pages of Mem Fox and Judy Horacek’s beloved picture book and frolics joyfully onto the stage. As part of QPAC’s Out of the Box Festival, this world premiere invites audiences into a pasture of puppets, projections, and playful sheepishness that’s tailor-made for young hearts—and the grown-ups lucky enough to tag along.

Rent is a rock musical loosely based on Puccini’s La Boheme, and narrates the story of impoverished artists living in the Village of New York during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. The show’s book, music, and lyrics creator, Jonathon Larson, died suddenly the night before its off-Broadway opening in 1996. The show ran for twelve years and has continued to run as a touring and international show since.