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Martha Schabas
ContributorWriterToronto, Canada

Martha Schabas is a contributor to The Globe and Mail. Her first novel, Various Positions, was shortlisted for an Evergreen Fiction Award and named a Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and NOW Magazine.

Her essays, arts criticism and short fiction have appeared in several Canadian journals and magazines.

 

Books

Various Positions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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National Ballet’s remount of Giselle features two strong debuts
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The future is female judging by the National Ballet’s fall mixed program
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A Case for the Existence of God is an earth-bound prayer for a better world
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The National Ballet’s corps is radiant in Balanchine’s Jewels
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Kidd Pivot’s Assembly Hall is a convocation of half-formed ideas
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National Ballet of Canada appoints Hope Muir as new artistic director
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National Ballet’s latest triple bill marries two masters of choreography with a classic crowd-pleaser
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What would Virginia Woolf say about the new biopic Vita & Virginia? Nothing complimentary, most likely
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National Ballet misses chance to freshen up Giselle with new leads
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The Second Woman shows a fascinating – and unnerving – overlap between fiction and real-life
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Soulpepper’s Fool for Love exposes the heart of Sam Shepard’s callous play
theatre & performance
Harbourfront Centre’s Torque brings an international spirit of dance to Toronto
theatre & performance
Direct address is having its feminist theatre moment with Hannah Moscovitch’s The Russian Play
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Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring is striking, evocative and confounding
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The choreography of the National Ballet’s Merry Widow can’t match its ravishing sets
theatre & performance
Luminato’s zigzagging House of Mirrors will leave you contemplating more than your reflection
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Kira, The Path/La Voie brings the energy to Toronto’s Luminato festival
theatre & performance
Dance under the highway: How choreographer Noémie Lafrance will enthrall Torontonians at the Bentway
theatre & performance
William Forsythe’s Physical Thinking at the National Ballet is a rich and vigorous interrogation of the classical medium
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Tchaikovsky Pro et Contra features high-quality dancing marred by speed and showiness
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