Tom McCamus, Chick Reid (3/08 If Music Be)
Excerpt from Perfomance Winter 2007-08: Tom McCamus, Chick Reid (Nicole Carter in "Blood Ties") | If Music Be
ART OF TIME’S IF MUSIC BE…
Bridging the world between words, music and dance inspired by Shakespeare, the Art of Time Ensemble features an evening of music by John Cage, Erich Korngold, Sergei Prokofiev and Richard Strauss, and choreographed by Peggy Baker and James Kudelka. If Music Be…opens with a humorous collection of readings by writers/thinkers like Virginia Woolf, Voltaire and Mel Gibson. Performers include soprano Monica Whicher and pianist Andrew Burashko with dancers Patrick Lavoie and Tanya Howard (National Ballet of Canada), and actors Tom McCamus, and Chick Reid. March 28 to 29 at the Enwave Theatre at Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay West. $25 - $36. 416-973-4000 or visit www.artoftimeensemble.com
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Excerpt from Artword List 3/13/08: Tom McCamus and Chick Reid (Nicole Carter in "Blood Ties")
Art of Time Ensemble: March 28, 29
Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Events, Music, Theatre.
Art of Time Ensemble presents
Shakespeare: If Music Be…
Friday March 28 & Saturday March 29, 2008 at 8 pm
Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West,
Featuring works from Peggy Baker, John Cage, Erich Korngold, James Kudelka, Sergei Prokofiev, William Shakespeare, Richard Strauss
Presented by Peggy Baker, Marc Bendavid, Marie Berard, Andrew Burashko, David Ferry, Tom McCamus, Chick Reid, Cara Ricketts, Rebekah Rimsay, Piotr Stanczyk, Monica Whicher
Tickets: $36 ($25 seniors/students). Call Harbourfront Centre Box Office at 416-973-4000
Information: www.artoftimeensemble.com
Highlighting several of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes, along with dance and music inspired by them, the acclaimed Art of Time Ensemble presents Shakespeare: If Music Be…, a sumptuous multi-disciplinary ode to the greatest English-language playwright ever to put pen to paper. Artistic Director Andrew Burashko brings together some of Canada’s most outstanding artistic talents for this one-of-a-kind event that runs Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29 at 8 pm at Harbourfront Centre’s Enwave Theatre, sponsored by BMO Financial.
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Award-winning director David Ferry takes the theatrical reins to direct veteran Shaw and Stratford actors (and husband and wife) Tom McCamus and Chick Reid as well as up-and-comers Cara Ricketts and Marc Bendavid as they interpret some of the Bard’s most famous works in addition to the above mentioned readings.
McCamus and Reid perform four amusing short scenes as Benedict and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing, alternating them with Korngold’s suite of four pieces - Much ado about nothing - for violin and piano. McCamus also performs the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet. Ricketts and Bendavid then perform as the star-crossed lovers in the Romeo and Juliet before parting scene from the play followed by Canadian dance legend’s James Kudelka’s Romeo and Juliet Before Parting, set to Sergei Prokofiev’s work of the same name performed by National Ballet of Canada soloists Rebekah Rimsay and Piotr Stanczyk.
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Excerpts from The Live Music Report 3/08: Tom McCamus, Chick Reid
shakespeare, Shakespeare, SHAKESPEARE
by David Fujino
Art of Time Ensemble Shakespeare: If music be ...
A music-driven dance and theatrical ode to the Bard
March 28 & 29, 2008 • Enwave Theatre • Toronto
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"Words About Shakespeare"
An initial outpouring of words from world famous writers served as prologue to the evening's appreciation of the Bard's supreme creativity and supreme humanity. The writings were read by the evening's four actors, Tom McCamus, Chick Reid, Marc Bendavid, and Cara Ricketts. Tom McCamus read Jorge Luis Borges' dreamy observation that even God, the Grand Writer, had an opinion about Shakespeare, and the cast then read from Herman Melville, Virgina Woolf, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Flaubert, Iris Murdoch, and Cioran, finishing with Marc Bendavid reading a last tribute to Shakespeare, complete with pregnant pause: "I believe he was a genius" ... Mel Gibson."
Of course, this got a laugh from the audience (at the expense of Mr. Gibson who's played Hamlet in film), and it surely made the audience feel superior because, after all, it was worshipping at the feet of the venerable Shakespeare, and not at the feet of the apparently less legitimate goddess, Pellicula. No matter. The quotation from Mel Gibson cleared the air and opened the door to an exquisite suite of songs for singer and piano, with text selected from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays.
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"More Words About Shakespeare"
from Vladimir Nabokov, Harold Pinter and Boris Pasternak
Tom McCamus, Chick Reid - Actors
More celebrated writers opined about Shakespeare - the man - via the agency of the actors McCamus and Reid. From out of Harold Pinter's string of terse, provocative phrases about Shakespeare I, for one, remember, "he stews in his own juices."
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"Romeo and Juliet" Prologue (William Shakespeare 1574-1616) Tom McCamus - Actor
When Tom McCamus narrated the timeless story of "Two households, both alike in dignity" (the Montagues and the Capulets); and he spoke about the subsequent death of their children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet (the "star-cross'd lovers" who "take their life"), he was giving more than a performance. He was providing important context for the three superb performances that would follow.
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Beatrice and Benedict scenes from "Much Ado About Nothing" with Tom McCamus and Chick Reid - Actors
Beneath the casual remarks and verbal jousting of a long time married man and woman, there can exist true love and affection. But seemingly, this love and affection lies deeply buried. Who really knows? Appearances are (ouch) deceiving.
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Excerpt from Toronto Star 3/27/08: Tom McCamus
Art of Time a synergy of collaboration
By: Susan Walker DANCE WRITER, Published on Thu Mar 27 2008
The show also features actors Chick Reid and Tom McCamus, Cara Ricketts and Marc Bendavid in Shakespeare performances directed by David Ferry, plus soprano Monica Whicher and violinist Marie Bérard.
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Excerpt from Showtime Magazine 3/28/08: Tom McCamus
Art of Time’s “Shakespeare: If Music Be…” reviewed by Stanley Fefferman
March 28, Enwave Theatre, Toronto
Tom McCamus read a text by Jorge Luis Borges that amused the mind with the idea that because Shakespeare was ‘nobody’, his protean imagination was propelled through a controlled delirium of character changes.
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Actions may sometimes speak louder than words. But how is it that the word ‘Canada’ can move an audience to laughter? as it did last night when Tom McCamus read this opinion by Voltaire: “Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.”
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Excerpt from Musical Toronto 11/20/14: Tom McCamus
WHO'S WHO | Art of Time Ensemble
By Member on November 20, 2014
Led by Artistic Director Andrew Burashko, Art of Time Ensemble transforms the way you experience music. The Ensemble fuses high art and popular culture in concerts that juxtapose the best of each genre. Art of Time entertains as it enlightens, revealing the universal qualities that lie at the heart of all great music, with the goal of attracting new and diverse audiences to the performing arts. Andrew Burashko formed Art of Time Ensemble in 1998 with the support of a small group of like-minded musicians and prominent figures in dance, theatre and other art forms, beginning with one-off concerts to small but enthusiastic audiences.
Today, Art of Time works with the best Canadian artists in the performing arts, film and literature, and noteworthy international musicians. This includes authors Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje; choreographers Peggy Baker, James Kudelka and David Earle; dancers Rebekah Rimsay, Michael Sean Marye, and Piotr Stanczyk; singers Madeleine Peyroux, Jackie Richardson, Steven Page and Sarah Slean; actors Tom McCamus, R. H. Thomson, Ted Dykstra, Lucy Peacock and Julian Richings; and filmmakers Peter Mettler and Tess Girard.
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