The Still, September 13, 2012

Are we looking forward to the new season? You bet we are! Do we want to see this show? Absolutely! This evocative shot is from the Canadian Stage production of Tear the Curtain!, sliding into the house in a month.

Look - we don't know if all these photogs across the country named Cooper are related, but we like their pictures. Here it's David Cooper who's at work, creating a sumptuously lit noir-ish moment where the eye is drawn away from the background lights and to the (dead?) arm of the woman and the half-lit face of the man (her murderer?). What sets Mr. Cooper's work apart is that there is less of the catch-as-catch-can feel of most theatre photos and an insistence, within the work itself, to pause and consider.