A Globe and Mail Preview

Pick up a copy of today's Globe and Mail for a great preview of A Synonym for Love from Kate Taylor:

BISEXUALITY, LOVE TRIANGLES AND HIPSTERS: THIS IS HANDEL?

Deborah Baic/Globe and Mail

Soprano Tracy Smith Bessette is lying on a bed at the Gladstone Hotel, caressing a whip, a gag and a dildo. To be sure, she's preparing to play a lover in a hotel-room tryst, but she is also about to start singing a song that Handel originally wrote for gamboling shepherds and shepherdesses.

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"I love the fact it's completely different from what we normally expect from Handel," [Ashiq] Aziz said this week during a break in rehearsals. "We are breaking all sorts of rules," [Ross] Manson added. "Handel purists will not be happy."

Read the full article here. A Synonym for Love opens Monday, August 20.