literature – Teahen Tales

Orange is the new purple

When it came time for me to buy a winter coat a couple years ago, I thought it might be nice to get a pop of colour in the exterior wardrobe.

We stayed in a furnished apartment in Mayfair, dubbed one of the “most expensive districts in London, and the world.”

A play needs to be remounted to remain art its audience can experience. Many new Canadian plays launch, then disappear.

I didn’t know much about Kamal’s personal story, when he was a theatre reviewer and I a theatre publicist.

I’ve never heard that audience quiet down faster than when Teva Harrison began speaking.

Davies’ novels can be wickedly funny, funnily old world, and are crammed with capital “C” characters.

To grow up as a girl with ambitions in a Canadian small town meant facing the sneer, “Who do you think you are?”