REVIEWS
DON’T LISTEN TO US, LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE!
AUDIENCE RESPONSE
“The performance was fantastic!!! ” - Catherine L.
“It was very vigorous and light-hearted and lots of fun. I have seen the play many times but never with such a memorable wrestling scene!” – Janet U.
“… I’ve seen it a couple of times at Stratford. But I’ve never laughed as much during it as I did at this evening’s Third Wall production, at the Irving Greenberg Theatre Centre…Both the cast and the audience had a rollicking good time.” –Barb P.
“…and we had a ‘wonderful evening out” – Paul M.
THE CRITICS
“Faced by a frosty Ottawa night, you may want to check out the warmer climes of …Third Wall Theatre’s production of As You Like It… (it) ,,,proves a worthy foe to winter”
“…Kristina Watt plays Rosalind. Watt combines a sprightly wit and coquettishness with a taste for irony in her wonderfully textured depiction…the audience leaves happy, the echoes of Shakespeare’s songs, which musical arranger David Da Costa performs in sweet, modern-day folk troubadour fashion, buoying them up…Scott Wilson must be singled out as well. He plays Jaques… with prowess…swept aside by the sheer joy of this production.”
-Patrick Langston – Ottawa Citizen
“I think Charles McFarland is a very good director…But by far the best thing that McFarland did was cast actress Kristina Watt as Rosalind…Good fun.”
-Denis Armstrong, Ottawa Sun
“…the verbal matches performed between her (Rosalind) and Orlando are very exciting as the teasing, the taunting, the subtle disdain hide all the passion that is buried in those fast paced exchanges…It’s clear that director McFarland has done an enormous amount of work with the actors on the texts…an extremely playful tongue in cheek staging of the play, with a director who dares to experiment with such complex material.”
-Alvina Ruprecht, CBC Radio & Scenechanges.com
“From the moment the first actor walks onto to the stage the air crackles with possibility and, we the viewers sense we are in for an intriguing ride…I congratulate him(McFarland) on casting Glenn Kulka as Charles, the Wrestler.The fight match alone is worth the price of admission.”
-Apartment 613
“This is once of the first times I truly enjoyed the singing in a Shakespeare production and believed in it…this production captures the essence of this lovely story as well as all its magic. I loved its brash wit and vitality.”
-Lesley Buxton, Wellington Oracle