Karen Fricker

1 week ago | intermissionmagazine.ca | Karen Fricker |Liam Donovan

iPhoto caption: Photo by Jae Yang. The following review is a conversation between theatre critics Karen Fricker and Liam Donovan. Both attended Tarragon Theatre’s production of Feast on opening night, April 9, 2025. The following is a transcription of Karen and Liam’s conversation, which took place over Zoom on April 11, 2025.

Dec 12, 2024 | intermissionmagazine.ca | Karen Fricker

int(111357) iPhoto caption: Photo by Marie-Andree Lemire.

Nov 5, 2024 | intermissionmagazine.ca | Karen Fricker

int(111197) iPhoto caption: What the Constitution Means to Me production still by Dahlia Katz. This review contains mild spoilers of What the Constitution Means to Me at Soulpepper Theatre.

Nov 1, 2024 | thestar.com | Karen Fricker

It was a short sentence that spoke volumes and caused a global ruckus: Irish film star Saoirse Ronan struggling to get a word in as a bunch of very famous men poked fun at self-defence techniques, then shutting them down with “That’s what girls have to think about all the time.”It’s still much more difficult than it should be for women and female-identifying folks to make their voices heard in culture.

Oct 19, 2024 | thestar.com | Karen Fricker

“I feel like women are like, ‘I’m going to try and get at the truth of this, all the hard parts of it, so that we can normalize them and heal and be honest, and not decide that we ourselves individually are flawed and bad at it’,” she said. She’s talking about women and female-identified people publicly navigating aspects of our lives that have previously been taboo: menstruation, childbirth, postpartum depression, abortion, aging, perimenopause, menopause.