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Jennie Hawkes has a key place in Canadian history as the first woman sentenced to hang in Alberta for murder. To wit: the killing of her philander husband’s lover and neighbour, Rosella Stoley. Jennie is the central (and controversial) figure in Tara Beagan’s play Thy Neighbour’s Wife, the latest offering of Theatre North West. The play runs from Feb. 3 to 21. Naomi Wright of Vancouver plays Jennie in the local production. As a drama based on real life, however, it falls on the shoulders of talented Toronto actor Martin Happer to bring out flaws and facets of her husband, lawyer Wilfr...

A nice little nasty. TWITTER 1/28/2021 Niamh Algar stars as a film censor in 1980s Britain who gets a little too dedicated to her job in director Prano Bailey-Bond's debut feature. Steeped in the gory look, grimy feel and transgressive spirit of the so-called "video nasties" from the 1980s, British meta-minded horror movie Censor offers an admirable pastiche, spiked with black humor. A debut feature for director Prano Bailey-Bond, whose well-traveled short Nasty covered similar territory, Censor stars upcoming actor Niamh Algar ( Calm with Horses) as a film censor who notices eerie paralle...