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Winnipeg Free Press
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Cannibal chronicle
Dauphin-raised playwright Sophie Guillas's appetite for small-town folk drama and queer fables emerges in How They'll Tell It, a gossipy dish set in a fictionalized resort community in her home province. Premièring tonight at the West End's Gargoyle Theatre, the first full-fledged production by the What If Theatre Company brings the audience to the shores of Waska, where a once-bustling tourism industry has withered away and died. What killed it was the type of trauma that envelops a community's total history — think Waco, Texas or Aurora, Colo. — and to a certain extent dictates its future reputation and atmosphere. In Waska, a cannibalistic spree in 1985 still reverberates decades later, with the wounds still open and painfully fresh, even for the generations born long after the police tape disappeared. JOHN WOODS / FREE PRESS Maia Woods plays Celia and Jade Janzen is Ivy in How They'll Tell It, a local production premièring at the Gargoyle Theatre this week. After meeting the entire cast — Jade Janzen, Josh Pinette, Maia Woods, David Lange, Angela Robbie and Laurie Monk — on the first page, the story then shifts to one of Waska's abandoned, derelict cabins, where Ivy (Janzen) polishes off her own version of the property's backstory to interested buyers: whether its accurate, and whether accuracy in storytelling is even possible, defines the narrative that afterward unfolds. 'So much of the play has to do with community reception and who owns storytelling,' says What If's Cali Sproule, who directs, designed the set and serves as dramaturge. In a small community, says Oakbank's Sproule, information travels at lightning speeds, often without verification or sufficient interrogation — the printed legend maintains a lasting dominion as it spreads across the regional map. Guillas, who holds a master's degree in English from the University of Western Ontario, is a devotee of British playwright Caryl Churchill, and in her scholarship has focused on the intersections of queer history, horror stories and 'lady cannibalism.' Her thesis, which fed directly into the script, began as a slasher novel entitled What's Eating the Victorians? JOHN WOODS / FREE PRESS Laurie Monk as Jenny and Angela Robbie as Doreen. She and Sproule — who served as assistant director to Herbie Barnes on David McLeod's Elevate: Manaaji'idiwin at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre — have been working to bring the story to stage for the better part of two years. Last year, the company held a staged reading as part of the Village Conservatory for Music Theatre's Festival of New Works. With additional support from the Canada Council for the Arts and from the Gargoyle, a theatre dedicated to the development of new work, the production runs until June 8. At last year's Fringe Festival, Guillas and Sproule, who met through the University of Manitoba's Black Hole Theatre Company, collaborated on 40 Below, earning a three-fish review from Rory Runnells, who called the production 'sufficiently sturdy.' As a poet, Guillas has been published in The Fiddlehead, and her short fiction has appeared in FreeFall Magazine. Next up for the duo is the creation of a medieval murder mystery called The Garden Hermit, which recently received funding from the Manitoba Arts Council. photos by JOHN WOODS / FREE PRESS From left: David Lange, Angela Robbie and Jade Janzen star in How They'll Tell It, a local production about a small town with a cannibalistic history. If you value coverage of Manitoba's arts scene, help us do more. Your contribution of $10, $25 or more will allow the Free Press to deepen our reporting on theatre, dance, music and galleries while also ensuring the broadest possible audience can access our arts journalism. BECOME AN ARTS JOURNALISM SUPPORTER Click here to learn more about the project. Ben WaldmanReporter Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University's (now Toronto Metropolitan University's) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben. Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
Geek Girl Authority
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? Archives
Avery Kaplan Random House Worlds has announced the release date for Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force by Rebecca Podos. Read on for more info.
Geek Girl Authority
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Random House Worlds Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming Random House Worlds has announced the release date for Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force by Rebecca Podos. Read on for more info. The Targaryens reign with fire and blood in House of the Dragon: The Official Coloring Book. Is it worth busting out your best colored pencils? Click here to read our review! Marvel Entertainment and Random House Worlds have announced a trio of What If...? adult prose novels to be released in 2024.
Geek Girl Authority
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Prose Novel MARVEL: WHAT IF… KITTY PRYDE STOLE THE PHOENIX FORCE? Release Date Announced
We finally have a release date for the next book in the ongoing Marvel: What If…? prose novel series from Random House Worlds. Read on to learn when you can expect Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? by Rebecca Podos. Credit: Random House Worlds. Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? The fourth latest entry in the excellent Marvel: What If…? prose novel series, Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? will see the return of America Chavez. And more specifically, the return of the America variant we've been following since the series' first book, Marvel: What If… Loki Was Worthy? by Madeleine Roux. RELATED: Book Review: Marvel: What If… Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? The story continued in Marvel: What If… Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? by Seanan McGuire. This was followed by the third book in the series, Marvel: What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? by Mike Chen. All three of the books in the series so far have been engaging, unique and well-written windows in the Mighty Marvel Multiverse. The fourth entry in the series will initially be set in 1990. Raised by Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde is 'an apex predator of a superior species.' But things grow more complicated when Pryde begins experiencing visions of a parallel timeline where she's surrounded by friends. These include Betsy Braddock, whom she soon meets outside of the visions … and who has a radical theory about how they can set the world right again. RELATED: Book Review: Marvel: What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? is scheduled to arrive at your local bookstore and/or public library beginning on October 14, 2025. Will you be picking up a copy? Marvel Announces 3 WHAT IF…? Prose Novels for 2024 Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.
Geek Tyrant
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
Hayley Atwell Would Love to Play Peggy Carter in the Upcoming AVENGERS Movies - "There's So Much More That Peggy Can Do" — GeekTyrant
Hayley Atwell's Peggy Carter has been a small, but consistent character in the MCU since the early days. She first appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger , and went on to play the role in her own Marvel One-Shot, as well as Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Avengers: Age of Ultron , Ant-Man , her own short-lived series Agent Carter , Avengers: Endgame , where we got to see Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans) go back in time to spend his life with her, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , where she was ruthlessly cut in two, and she voiced Carter in the animated series What If…? . So what's next for Peggy Carter? Atwell hopes that she will return in some capacity, as she sees Carter as a majorly underserved character. The actress explained in a recent interview with Den of Geek: "There are so many things that she could do, there's so much more I feel I can bring to a character because I've developed as time's gone on. What's so great about having time behind you and having had a 20-year career so far is the development of skill, and I think there's so much more that Peggy can do. 'She's very much an underserved character. When she says 'I know my value and everyone else's opinion doesn't really matter,' it's because she hasn't been given the platform that she knows she deserves and that she's really capable of doing in the world.' She went on to add: 'And so I just think there is just so much more that she can do, and I think she speaks to a modern time, so to be able to take her to that next level as Captain Carter would be phenomenal. Especially with all my Mission: Impossible training. I am ready, let's go!" Atwell is great in the role, and I think she has a lot of potential if she gets the chance to continue to play her. The next opportunities that make the most sense would be in Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027). Would you like to see Peggy Carter return?
