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Nothing Sacred

Once in a great while, a production can be of such high quality that it redeems a mediocre script. Firebelly’s production of Nothing Sacred is not one of those instances. However, it presents a few terrific performances which ought to provide us with good cheer. (Full Review )

Latest from Firebelly Effectively Melds Comedy, Drama

When I'm toodling down the highway and see someone do something incredibly, moronically stupid in traffic, I always take a breath before going ballistic, and look at the license plate of the offender.

“Ah, it's OK,” I'll say softly. “They're from Maryland - that explains it. They're all nuts over there.”

When it comes to theater reviewing, there's a corollary. When a playwright pens a work that is essentially indescribable - at various times charming, caustic, witty and maddening - I look down at the bio. “Ah, he's Canadian - that explains it!” (Full Review)

Nothing Sacred

Firebelly Productions takes on George F. Walker’s Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s novel from 1862. Walker, Canadian taxi driver turned incendiary playwright, is not one to be pigeonholed, and nothing bespeaks this fact like the current offering, a tragi-comic Russian study of generation gaps and social revolution. (Full Review)

A Russian classic inspired a contemporary Canadian playwright

This is not your typical stage adaptation of a novel. Highly successful, often produced Canadian playwright George F. Walker took the characters from what is often cited as the first modern Russian novel, Ivan Turgenev's 1862 Fathers and Sons, and built his own play. He starts just where Turgenev began, but he ends miles away with the lives of the characters having taken different paths. The result is a play quite appropriate for Firebelly as they pursue their mission of giving younger, less experienced cast members a chance to sink their teeth into challenging roles in a supportive environment. (Full Review)

Russia Via Canada Makes Easy Watching

Canadian playwright George F. Walker did more than just translate Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" when he created his stage play drawing from that famous 1862 novel. Using modern stage techniques and distinctly modern language to make the characters as accessible as possible for modern audiences, he created something very different than the original 250-page tome. (Full Review)

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