Review: (Montreal) Hyena Subpoena

Cat Kidd (Photo credit: Tristan Brand)

Cat's Play

Exploring new territory

by Gaëtan L. Charlebois

Full disclosure: I have only seen Cat Kidd's work on YouTube. However there was a chorus of people, in and around CharPo, who told me that it was time I changed that. Kidd, I was told, was a force of nature and her work absolutely unqualifiable. What egged me a little bit more was the fact that her new work, Hyena Subpoena, is helmed by Alison Darcy - an actor/director whose career I have been following from the start and who has an almost unerring theatrical intelligence.

First-Person: Alison Darcy on Hyena Subpoena

Cat Kidd and Geoff Agombar in South Africa

The Smiling White Mice
Going to Africa to find a way home
by Alison Darcy


It was such a strange thing to see Cat and Geoff in SA.

They had recently been described by a storyteller/teacher to her elementary students in a small township near the bush as two smiling white mice with sunburns.

And there they were, smiling at me, on the second floor balcony of a bar on Long Street in Cape Town. I had always liked these two.