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Montreal Gazette
12 minutes ago
- Montreal Gazette
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This will mark Day's first-ever appearance at JFL, but he is well aware of the fest and the comics who have played here, including many of his fellow SNL players discovered at the New Faces series. 'I'm an old face now,' he cracks. 'But it's shameful I've never been before. I'm definitely following in some mighty footsteps and just hope to come close to what many have done here in the past.' The ever-self-effacing Day, 45, got his start in comedy collaborating with the famed Groundlings troupers in L.A. He has been holed up with SNL the last 12 seasons as a performer and writer and has earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series along the way. Yet he has no clue about how many sketches he has penned for the show over the years. 'I know I have written hundreds and hundreds. But I couldn't even guess. It's probably approaching 1,000, but not all, obviously, have made the show. I've definitely had some bombs, but luckily they're usually vetted out at dress rehearsal. Point is you cannot manufacture the magic of something that works. 'It all varies week to week. It's very much peaks and valleys, not taking the victories too seriously and not taking the failures too seriously. There's constant pressure. It's weird because everyone's very supportive of one another and it definitely feels like a family. And yet at the same time, there is only a limited amount of real estate on the show, so there is this kind of underlayer of competition. Thankfully, it doesn't really poison the dynamic.' Day has no issues about making himself look ridiculous à la Butt-Head. He credits the British version of The Office with Ricky Gervais for inspiring him. 'The comedy in that show is all about the embarrassment and awkwardness. That kind of forms a lot of my sensibilities, like being humiliated on camera,' notes Day, who played Crackle in the Snap, Crackle and Pop trio in the Seinfeld cereal flick Unfrosted. SNL's 50th anniversary this past season was particularly significant for Day and his longtime writing partner on the show, Streeter Seidell, with whom he is working on a Judd Apatow project. 'That was wild, with everything leading up to it. Luckily, I was in a couple of sketches and myself and Streeter wrote a couple of things, like the Kate McKinnon alien-abduction sketch. The whole thing was just incredibly surreal. ... There were a couple of (former cast members) I had never met, but you kind of instantly have this kinship, because the show pretty much operates the same since 1975. I do look back and can't believe I was part of something like that. 'I remember catching the Coneheads when I was 5, and it just blew my mind,' he adds. 'Now I hope to stay on the show as long as I possibly can. 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Winnipeg Free Press
4 hours ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
No last stop in sight for Streetcar
Stanley, Blanche and, of course, Stella! Nearly 80 years since Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden and director Elia Kazan made A Streetcar Named Desire the stuff of theatre legend, the play that Tennessee Williams often said was the best work of his illustrious career refuses to slow down. 'I was reading in a book that before COVID, somewhere in the world, A Streetcar Named Desire was playing every hour,' says George Toles, who is directing the Pulitzer-winning drama for the independent theatre company the 28th Minute. Arthur MacKinnon photo From left: Kevin Ramberran, Heather Roberts, Justin Fry and Sophie George star in Tennessee Williams' most famous work. 'Kazan said that if it's cast properly, it always works, and that's because of its dramatic shape, its characterizations, its vitality, its humour.' When the play debuted in 1947, it disinterred deeply rooted taboos, paving the way for a stream of theatre — sweaty, lurid, streetwise and feverishly realistic about the politics of sex — that forever changed the form, adds Toles, a longtime film and theatre professor at the University of Manitoba who has directed Williams' Confessional (2018) and Suddenly, Last Summer (2014) for the 28th Minute. 'The emotional challenges it brings up have in no sense been resolved, tamed or domesticated,' the director says. Over the course of an hour-long roundtable, the director and his principal cast — Heather Roberts, Justin Fry, Sophie George and Kevin Ramberran — could hardly contain their enthusiasm for a piece of work Toles describes as having a 'primordial energy,' achieved by its mingling of poetry and realistic prose. In Williams' hands, the two were one in the same. 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Under Toles' tutelage, each participant brings a studious approach to both character and craft, often remaining for hours after rehearsal finishes to fine-tune their performances. By producing carefully selected works by playwrights such as Annie Baker, Kenneth Lonergan and Will Eno, the company sets its actors up for career-altering roles. Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Fry made his Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre debut earlier this season in the backcourt dramedy King James, parlaying years of success in indie settings to a starting role for the province's largest company. For the actor, who is currently pursuing a master's degree in counselling psychology, the role of the intermittently stable Kowalski provides a professional opportunity for personal development. 'When you work with fictitious people written this well, what you have is really a study of human behaviour and understanding who we are,' Fry says. 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Winnipeg Free Press
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Weinstein jury deliberations scrutinize one accuser's account
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