Selected coverage of stage, screen, and producing work.
Act 1 felt like an ordinary family sitcom with the usual suspects: mom and dad (played by Angela Moore and Christopher Bautista), teenaged daughter (Yasmin D'Oshun), and aunt (Miranda Edwards).
Though there were a few moments during 3 Fingers Back when the acting veered perilously close to melodrama, and the set, at times, felt excessively oppressive, the clever structure of the play overpowered all of that, as did the brilliance of the text and the standout performances by Tsholo Khalema, Uche Ama, and Christopher Bautista.
As Adam, Christopher Bautista is quietly imposing and formidable.
The three soldiers, Adam (Christopher Bautista), Beech (Indrit Kasapi), and Saad, struggle with reconciling with their power while simultaneously perpetrating violence against the captives, as well as to each other.
Christopher Bautista was the embodiment of the hotep mofo I have wanted to smack at a Reggae night gone horribly wrong.
Long-form Q&A profile, approximately 2,500 words, by Joe Szekeres, Supervisory Toronto Critic. Covers USC training, Lighthouse Actor's Studio, Theatre Passe Muraille, and Company of Fools Ottawa.
“Give It Up and The Smell of Horses work well together as one show, presenting a compelling twist on the metaphor of a two-sided coin. Bautista and Kasapi have the impressive ability to be intimidating one moment and charming or funny the next.”
“Bautista plays Adam as a bigoted brute, but St. Bernard at least gives Adam a sense of irony in coping with his situation. This Adam is just like Kasapi's Beech only more ferocious, more mercurial and more dangerous.”