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In Review: TUNB’s ‘Black Dog: 4 vs. the Wrld’ Depicts Moody Teens and Black Dog Dreams

Four teens are stuck in a row of chairs outside of the principal’s office. One’s a former popular drama queen, one’s an angsty emo kid, one’s a quiet boy, and one’s an anxious girl who’s the top of her class. Continue reading In Review: TUNB’s ‘Black Dog: 4 vs. the Wrld’ Depicts Moody Teens and Black Dog Dreams

In Review: Theatre UNB Presents ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca: Two Plays by Eugene Ionesco’

Theatre UNB is concluding the semester for their Drama 2173 class with ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca,’ a double-feature of plays by Eugene Ionesco, the Romanian-French playwright best known for his pioneering work in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd. Focusing on the surreal, the inexplicable, and the outrageous, director Len Falkenstein selected two of Ionesco’s early works, ‘Jack, or the Submission‘ and ‘The Bald Soprano,’ with the stated intent of challenging the actors’ skills and encouraging growth. Continue reading In Review: Theatre UNB Presents ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca: Two Plays by Eugene Ionesco’