Silly Little Country

'Slings and Arrows' wraps up Season 2 on US TV

And David Tufte describes nicely why it was so entertaining:

How can you not love a show in which the artistic director uses all his acting skills to sob incoherently (by thinking about his grandma) to get his way with another director, in which a soulless production of Romeo and Juliet uses the most asexual costumes imaginable, where one of Macbeth's victims pulls a "Fatal Attraction" death scene, where a dentist poses as a marketer and pitches an outrageous marketing plan that works, where the clueless partner in a May-September relationship shows his passion about the true love of his former lover, where a real ghost decides on the spur of the moment to get involved in the premiere of Macbeth as - what else - the ghost, and so on.

The series is a wonderful showcase of the enormous performing talent available here in Canada, featuring performers fairly well known internationally, like Rachel McAdams and Paul Gross ('Due South'), but also packed with superb actors less widely known, like Mark McKinney, Sean Cullen, Martha Burns, Stephen Ouimette. Though the IMDB credits show no sign of him, I could swear I recall Colm Feore playing a key role as well.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:46 AM