Professor Lionel Walsh is directing a cast and crew of drama students and grads in the Canadian premiere of the Irish drama “Choking the Butterfly.”
Professor Lionel Walsh is directing a cast and crew of drama students and grads in the Canadian premiere of the Irish drama “Choking the Butterfly.”
University Players is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to see its current production, The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. The play’s run continues through Sunday at Essex Hall Theatre. Wednesday through Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. For more information or tickets, call 519-253-3000, ext. 2808, or visit www.universityplayers.com.
Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji was just 18 when she threw herself into Ottawa’s Rideau River in March 2008. In May this year, a Minnesota man was sentenced to jail for his role in encouraging her suicide after he struck up an online friendship posing as a young woman and proposed a suicide pact.
A group of UWindsor drama students will explore this tragedy in an original play to be staged October 15 and 16 in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre’s Studio Theatre.
