Solo Hamlet at Montreal's Wildside theatre fest
A one-man version of Hamlet and the return of Miss Sugarpuss Must Die are among the highlights of Montreal's Wildside Theatre Festival beginning Jan. 4.
Centaur Theatre artistic director Roy Surette released the lineup for the 14th annual festival of independent theatre on Wednesday.
Miss Sugarpuss Must Die, winner of Centaur's Best of the Fringe Award for 2010, returns to the stage with Holly Gauthier-Frankel starring as the burlesque dancer who believes someone is trying to kill her.
The solo version of Hamlet by Raoul Bhaneja features the Montreal actor playing all 17 parts in Shakespeare's tragedy. Bhaneja began his sojourn in the one-man show in Toronto in 2006 and has since taken it to Edinburgh, New York and London. A documentary about the work has aired on Bravo.
Studio Six Theatre, a group of Russian-trained American actors from New York, is bringing its adaptation of Dostoevsky's Demons, called ... the itsy bitsy spider....
The play is based on a controversial chapter of the novel that was censored in Russia and conjures a town torn apart by fanaticism and plotting revolutionaries.
The Wildside Theatre Festival is scheduled for Jan. 4-16 on both stages of the Centaur Theatre.