‘Tis the Season for Benevolence at the GCTC

 It may the festive time of year, but the GCTC is bucking the trend of those feel-good feelings of the season in its current production of the 2013 Government General’s Award for French-language Drama, Benevolence. This dark play explores some heavy themes of capitalism and greed, family tragedy and the spectrum

Album Reviews for November 18, 2019

 Guerilla Toss - What Would the Odd Do? (Boston, MA/New York City) Guerilla Toss has become more fascinating with every subsequent release, as they've taken their punk-jazz fusion and slowly coloured it with lush, spacey soundscapes. Never ones to miss a chance for mashing dance-bops with something more heady, this

Alexandria Maillot gets collaborative

 Not every record goes as planned. For Alexandria Maillot's Benevolence, a friend from British Columbia's offer to record in Montreal utterly reshaped a few songs into an album. With new players, songs and a process that went beyond her own creativity as well, Maillot came out with a record outside