Joe's Mrs. Warren's Profession!

"The acting is great," reads one review. Another has this:

"Joseph Franchini’s performance as Praed is also a gem, from the time he nervously approaches to meet Vivie and becomes inexorably drawn into the family’s drama...
That each character wholeheartedly believes in his own standpoint and worldview, whether with a sense of naïveté or entitlement, makes their interactions captivating and provocative to watch throughout the performance...." (Off Off Online)

Below Joe's picture, on the right, is a link to a review; or just search Google with Mrs. Warren's Profession, Joe Franchini.

Congratulations, Joe.

Anouihl's Antigone

Last night I saw a wonderful production of Jean Anouilh's Antigone at Théâtre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) here in Quebec City, at the University Laval. Antigone had lip piercings and unkempt hair, dressed in grunge black. The jacket she left behind on her last entry into her tomb the young Hémon will hold it as if it were the bundled child they might have had. The audience walked through the cast, assembled beforehand on-stage as Anouihl requested for curtain rise -- and here there was no curtain. The tone was set from the moment your ticket was taken by one of the guards.

It's a splendid script, of course, and these young French Canadians actors were in their element with the French.