Upstaging all that holiday cheer

The Globe and Mail: At a time of year when feel-good carols and Sugar Plum Fairies rule the stage, Vancouver’s Blackbird Theatre Company has been creating a different kind of holiday tradition: hard-hitting, challenging plays. From a violent Greek tragedy to a marathon examination of a dysfunctional marriage, Blackbird has been going up against all that fluffy holiday fare with works not typically associated with the Christmas season. It continues the tradition this week, with a production of one of theatre’s more difficult modern masterpieces, Waiting for Godot.