Philip Diamond, Jaiden French, Kimia Kalantari, Jack Emerson Mosney, Kaleb Piper, Dale Rideout, Katya Podlesnaia & Chrisevina Tsoura | Photo by Jenae Toorie

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Cusp is Chekov, specifically—Uncle Vanya, sort of. It’s a contemporary riff on it. Some of these stand-in characters have been aged down and middled-aged angst about wasted potential has been replaced with dread for the future, so it makes sense for this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed generation of graduating acting students from George Brown Theatre School to be inhabiting this classical portrait of ennui. It’s a collaborative effort. And it works, really works, a hell of a lot better than a student-crafted Fringe show riffing on Chekhov should. Continue Reading