Friday, March 19, 2010

What's Playing: Old Wicked Songs

What do the 1996 Pulitzer price and our very own director, Martin Faucher, have in common? Joe Marans’s play “Old Wicked Songs” playing at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, is the answer to that very question. Since March 7th Jean Marchand and Emile Proulx-Cloutier have been playing an amazing performance of this award winning play every evening.

Set in Vienna, Austria in the 1980’s, a young American piano prodigy studies with a Viennese music teacher. Both characters are troubled with their daunting pasts that prevents both from pursing what they do best, music. Together, their stories are intertwined, in a political backdrop of Vienna, with one another allowing both to confront their haunting pasts.

I had the opportunity to see the play last Wednesday evening. I truly recommend each and one of you to take the time to see and to sink in the astounding performances. The music itself, which I believe to be another character in the story, is transcending and mesmerising.

Joe Maran’s, Old Wicked Songs, continues to play at the Segal Theatre until March 21st, that’s this Sunday.


Love the city you are in.



Amour de Montréal.

Segal Theatre
5170 Côte-Ste-Catherine

Metro: Cote-Saine-Catherine

I'm Back

As you are all fully aware of, the last month I have been absent from my exceptional and thought provoking blog. I write this with a large smile on my face. I’ve had visitors coming and going, stopping the projects that I have been working on.

That is no excuse, they’ve been gone for more than a week. Procrastination is a thing of the past I say to you all, however we’ll see what time will tell.

However though I return to you all and full of amazing ideas to present to you all in the next weeks to come. So stay tuned, bookmark this page, or better yet make it your homepage destination.

Love the city you are in.

Amour de Montréal.