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Be My Baby - October 2009

The Montreal Gazette
Strong performances deliver sensitive stories.

by Pat Donnelly, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 11 November, 2009.

Sixties Girl bands rise again in Canadian première
The West End Times - October 17, 2009.

The Montreal Gazette
Open adoption is a modern and still controversial concept

by Pat Donnelly, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 28 October, 2009.

The Suburban
Baby on Board
by Walter J. Lyng
The Suburban - November 4, 2009.

Cherry Docs - April 2009

The Suburban
Hope, hate and combat boots
by Julia Gerke
The Suburban - April 22, 2009.

The Montreal Gazette
Cherry Docs
Doing time, like facing the hangman's noose, can focus the mind wonderfully.
by Pat Donnelly, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 18 April, 2009.

Falling far from Grace.

by Erica Ruth Kelly
Rover Arts - 21 April, 2009.

The Canadian Jewish News
Cherry Docs stamps out prejudice
Preview-by Heather Solomon

HOUR
No easy answers
Preview-by Brett Hooton

The Montreal Mirror
Skinhead comes home
Preview by Neil Boyce

Gow's Cherry Docs now in Montreal
Interview by the Stanstead Journal


Othello - November 2008

The Montreal Gazette
Othello
Othello packs solid emotional punch
by Pat Donnelly, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 19 Nov, 2008.

405 years and still fresh
by Adam Avrashi
The Concordian - 18 Nov, 2008.

the Link
Saucy Shakespeare
by Barbara Pavone
Nov 18, 2008.

the McGill Tribune
Young composer tackles old masterpiece
by Emma Quail
Nov 18, 2008.

Westmounters perform Othello
The Westmont Independent - Nov 18-19, 2008.

NDG's Tristan D. Lalla is Othello
The NDG Monitor - Nov 12, 2008


Unity (1918) - September 2007

The Montreal Gazette
Unity (1918)
Poetic cool & dark humour
by Matt Radz, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - Sept, 2007.

The Montreal Mirror
Prairie Fever
preview by AMY BARRATT
The Montreal Mirror - 19 Sept,2007.

Invisible Cities Network
Apocalypse revisited, Saskatchewan 1918
review by Christina Manolescu
Oct 2, 2007.

McGill Tribune
Life During Wartime-Prairie Sentiment & Spanish Flu
by Leona Teixeira
Oct 2,2007.

HOUR
Worst Knitting Impression
by Brett Hooton
The Hour - Dec 13, 2007.


The Loves of Shakespeare's Women - Apr 2007


The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Living a theatre dream
Soskin swaps roles for Persephone's next stage.Indie theatre company director will perform in benefit shows

by Lauren Sweeney
The Westmount Independent - 26 Mar, 2008.

The Montreal Gazette
The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Soskin swaps roles for Persephone's next stage
by Matt Radz, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 14 Apr, 2007.

To the Green Fields Beyond - Nov 2006

The Montreal Gazette
To the Green Fields Beyond

First World War Drama
by Matt Radz, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 11 Nov, 2006.

The Montreal Mirror
The Mud and the Blood

by AMY BARRATT
The Montreal Mirror - 16 Nov,2006.

Prodigy - March/April 2006

The Montreal Gazette
Prodigy
A Family History in Three Verses
by Matt Radz, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - 4 April, 2006.

La Presse
Prodige dans la Langue de Huston
par Sylvie St.Jacques
La Presse-3 avril, 2006. LE DELIT
Premiere prodigieuse pour Prodigy
par Lucille Hagege
Le Delit-4 avril, 2006.

Invisible Cities Network
The Uterine Stage
by Christina Manolescu
April 5, 2006.

McGill Tribune
Easy on the Decor
by Liz Perle
April 4,2006.

The Suburban
Women bound by love and jealousy.
by Julia Gerke
The Suburban - April5, 2006.

The Montreal Mirror
Keys of Life
by AMY BARRATT
The Montreal Mirror - April 5,2006.

McGill Daily
Three generations of Russian women grace the Ste. Catherine stage
by Madeleine Elton
April 3,2006.


Spring Awakening - November 2005

The Montreal Gazette
Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening still carries a wallop
by Matt Radz, Gazette Theatre critic
The Montreal Gazette - Nov 15, 2005.

PRINCE CHAMELEON PRESS, INVISIBLE CITIES NETWORK
Energy, Freshness and Naïvete
by Christina Manolescu
Invisible Cities Network-Nov 14, 2005.

DÉLIT
Le Réveil d'une Génération
par Karin Lang
Délit-Nov 15, 2005.

MON THEATRE
Ahead of its Time
by Genevieve Germain
Mon Theatre - Nov 12, 2005.


A Room of One's Own - March 2005

CBC Radio One
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Radio interview hosted by Jeannette Kelly with Persephone Administrator Andrée McNamara-Tait.
CBC HomeRun - Mar 7, 2005.

The Montreal Gazette
A Room of One's Own speaks of the economic freedom women need to write

by GAËTAN L. CHARLEBOIS
The Montreal Gazette - Mar 11, 2005.

The Montreal Gazette
One-woman wonder

by JENNIFER CAMPBELL
The Montreal Gazette - Apr 3, 2005.

WESTMOUNT EXAMINER
Soskin Recreates Woolf Lectures
by MARTIN C. BARRY
The Westmount Examiner - Mar 28, 2005.

The Canadian Jewish News
Gabrielle Soskin not afraid to tackle Virginia Woolf at Monument National
by HEATHER SOLOMON
The Canadian Jewish News - Feb 24, 2005.


SubUrbia - Sept 2004

CBC Radio One
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Radio interview hosted by Fiona Downy with Persephone Artistic Director Gabrielle Soskin.
CBC Radio One (All in the Weekend) - Sept 25, 2004.

The Montreal Gazette
Suburbia, Hemlock barometers of youth

by MATT RADZ
The Montreal Gazette - Sept 26, 2004.

The Montreal Mirror
Residential evil
by AMY BARRATT
The Montreal Mirror - Sept 30, 2004.

The Westmount Times
Pushing the Envelope
by MIRA FISHER
The Westmount Times - Sept 8, 2004.

HOUR
Suburban Truths
by JODI ESSERY
The Hour - Sept 15, 2004.

The Canadian Jewish News
Showbiz survivor shows how it's done in subUrbia
by HEATHER SOLOMON
The Canadian Jewish News - Sept 23, 2004.

The Suburban
Alienation and loathing in SubUrbia
by CRAIG MCKEE
The Suburban - Sept 15, 2004.


Jane Eyre - May 2004

The Canadian Jewish News
Soskin does justice to Jane Eyre
by HEATHER SOLOMON
The Canadian Jewish News - May 6, 2004.

Jane Eyre
by TERRI
Orcasound - 2004.


Kindertransport - October 2002

The Montreal Mirror
Wholesome harvest
by AMY BARRETT
The Montreal Mirror October - 10, 2002.

Persephone Productions Revives Kindertransport Saga
by NANCY SNIPPER
The Chronicle - Wednesday, September 18, 2002.

The Montreal Gazette
Prying open the lid on horrors of Kindertransport

by MATT RADZ
The Montreal Gazette - October 15, 2002.

The Suburban
Kindertransport played straight
by MYRON GALLOWAY
The Suburban - October 9, 2002.


Playhouse Creatures - September 2001

The Westmount Times
Persephone troupe beating the odds

by Wayne Hiltz
The Westmount Times

Seventeenth-Century English Feminist Struggles Brought to Life in Park Lafontaine

The Montreal Mirror
Creature Comforts
by GAËTAN L. CHARLEBOIS
The Montreal Mirror

Anna Karenina - September 2000

The Montreal Mirror
I dream of Anna.
by AMY BARRETT
The Montreal Mirror - September 2000.

The Montreal Gazette
Curtain rises on a dream

by DONNA NEBENZAHL
The Montreal Gazette - September 9, 2000.

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