Re: RAT anyone know anything about montreal?

["Megan Monaghan" <MeganM@pwcenter.org>]

Ruthanne,

Welcome to the RAT list.

I spent some time in Montreal last year for personal, not professional, reasons.  It's a fabulous city.  Incredible.  (As you probably already know.)

It's also not very good for English-language theater.

The English-speaking population in Montreal is about the size of a large town.  So what you get in English-speaking theater is along the lines of what you'd expect in a large town.  Not a city.  So it shows kind of badly in the urban setting of Montreal.

Montreal has a theater fringe festival in June, which varies in quality year to year like all fringe festivals seem to.  From what I've found out, they use a lot of temporary storefront or found-space kind of performance venues, because there are very few actual theater spaces available in Montreal.

There's also the national theater conservatory there; I believe they teach their students in both languages.

One bit of happy news:  the Canadian Council recently devoted $500M (Can.) in new spending to the arts throughout the country.  Some of that is bound to trickle down to Montreal.

Best of luck,
Megan
another former Texan

>>> oku_haiku@yahoo.com 05/10/01 12:55PM >>>

hello, all.  new to the list.  enjoying what i have
been reading so far.  i have been trying out
conversations with my poor friends while trying to get
my sealegs for the discussion, so i should perhaps
jump in soon.

a question though: in august i will be moving from
dallas, texas (hotbed of revolution that it is) to
montreal, quebec (at least they speak a different
language and have had activists on the news...).  i
was wondering if anyone know anything about theater in
montreal and had some directions they could steer me
in?  any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

ruthanne price

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