Profile of Gordon Jones

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• Jones has a tongue in cheek approach to Chekhov’s...
  Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, “The Lady with the Lap Dog” is a one-act play for two actors (and a dog), adapted for the stage by Andy ...
• French original takes on comedic Newfoundland flavour
  First performed in 1664 at the court of King Louis XIV, “Tartuffe” is Moliere’s great satirical comedy about religious hypocrisy.After its royal ...
• New World’s production of ‘The Tempest’...
  The third season of the New World Theatre Project in Cupids was inaugurated Saturday past with the opening of “The Tempest,” the rain politely ...
• ‘Art’ a character-revealing comedy
  How much would you pay for a painting that is pure white? No other colour, no images — only an uncompromising, white canvas, with perhaps a faint ...
• ‘Merchant’ gives outrageous theatricality and...
  Last year was the inaugural season of Shakespeare in Cupids, performed in a scaled-down, Elizabethan-style amphitheatre of wood and canvas, with ...
• Black comedy played by heavy-weight cast
  On a grittily realistic basement set, with hanging lights and storage cage, four guys share a secret and a past crime. The nature of their felony ...
• Major offers fresh look at First World War in new play
  A new playscript by Kevin Major was test-driven on Sunday afternoon in the rudimentary theatre — more lecture hall than theatre — of The ...
• 'Oil and Water' a tale of two cultures
  The latest play by nationally acclaimed Newfoundland playwright Robert Chafe is a tale of two cultures. The year is 1942. An American sailor ...
• ‘Scorched’ a slow burn
  Currently playing in St. John’s, “Scorched” is the translated handiwork of award-winning Lebanese-Canadian playwright, Wajdi Mouawad, who works ...
• 'Revue 2010' marks comings and goings
  Having been pummelled in Trinity by hurricane Igor, bloodied but unbowed, Rising Tide is back on its feet for the annual Revue show, which opened ...
• Zestful, artfully performed bunch of Munsch
  C2c Theatre is staging another group of Robert Munsch’s stories as its third annual Christmas offering, in the intimate space of the basement of ...
• To the wall
  Is there much doubt that Andy Jones is the funniest and most versatile and also most reflective stand-up comedian in Newfoundland and Labrador? ...
• ‘Hairspray’ cast deserves better script
  A stage musical based on a 1988 film that takes us back to working-class Baltimore in the early 1960s sounds dated even before the curtain rises. ...
• ‘Dying Hard’ depicts price of mining fluorspar
  Fluorspar is a mineral used in the production of steel, aluminium, and other industrial commodities, and was mined on the Burin Peninsula from ...
• Young group doesn't disappoint
  Debuting in Toronto in 1991, Daniel MacIvor's exuberantly metatheatrical "Never Swim Alone" has held the stage well since then, the current ...
• 'Love's Labour's Lost' revisited
  Perhaps the most elegant of the shows in the 18-year history of the Shakespeare By the Sea festival was the 2000 production of "Love's Labour's ...
• Rising Tide's 'Revue' plugging along
  Imagine, a quarter century of Rising Tide's annual Revue. How much foolery does that add up to?, How much caricature. How much song and dance? ...
• Audience collaboration welcome
  What is it about alliteration that delights kids so? As you may surmise from the title, "Murmel, Murmel, Mortimer, Munsch," is a show for ...
• Little women weave tale of 19-th century storyline
  Does anyone still read Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women?" No need to do it right now, though. A musical incarnation of the nineteenth-century ...
• 'Tuesday's with Morrie' leaves no heartstring unplucked
  Currently playing on the main stage of the St. John's Arts and Culture Centre is the Beothuck Street Players production of "Tuesdays with ...
• 'Sex, The Rules Of' weaves an intricate, complex tale
  Attending a play written, directed, or enacted by Lois Brown, you do not expect a lady-like, little-finger-lifting tea party. Indeed, with a ...
• Whimsical Wonderbolt Circus is fun, beautiful
  If you have become accustomed to strolling over to St. Bon's to enjoy summertime circus, take note that you need to change your itinerary, since ...
• Tempted by the cliffs of Logy Bay
  Shakespeare's swansong before relinquishing his position as chief playwright for the King's Men, "The Tempest" is the second full-dress ...
• Enjoying the 'Tropics' with your eyes closed
  As any cigar aficionado can tell you, in days of yore, before the invention of radio or Muzak, workers rolling tobacco for long hours in Cuban ...
• 'Bent' offers look at brutal history
  C2c Theatre has something of a penchant for gritty plays set in seedy environments. Now playing in the Basement Theatre of the St. John's Arts ...
• '(In)complete Herstory of Women' offers unorthodox...
  When you encounter a show called "The (In)complete Herstory of Women in Newfoundland (and Labrador!)" - watch out for brackets, substitutions and ...
• Polished and poised performance brings poignant...
  Opening a provincial tour at the St. John's Arts and Culture Centre, "God's Middle Name" - what an attention-grabbing title - dramatizes the ...
• Triple tribute to Benoit deftly handled
  Performed on a stage furnished only with curved ramp and six suspended, dummy fiddles that are unhooked from time to time to serve as props, ...
• 'There is nothin' like a dame'
  Premiering in the wake of the Second World War, almost half a century ago, "South Pacific" was revived on Broadway earlier this year, as well as ...
• Strong performances in 'Doubt'
  Where better to stage a play about a priest and a nun than Holy Heart Theatre? Author of half-a-dozen screenplays and more ...