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The Doll’s House Project
‘With The Doll’s House Project, director Laara Sadiq presents the fight for freedom through a compassionate lens. Inspired by the work of Henrik Ibsen, the Studio 58 play marks the veteran actor’s first time directing.’
- Gail Johnson, Stir Magazine
‘In a generous and revelatory move, director Sadiq multiply casts her nine-member ensemble…Sadiq’s casting strategy implies that all of us contain all of the qualities we’re seeing onstage, which is humbling and liberating.’
- www.colinthomas.ca
‘Director Sadiq’s vision is certainly bold and inventive. With a nod to Bertolt Brecht, all nine players remain on stage throughout. And with theatre’s 21st century commitment to gender equality, all the actors play both male and female roles.’
- www.joledingham.ca
Photo: Amir Tabatabaei
The Second Woman
‘Through the repetition of this intimate encounter, The Second Woman explores the complex interplay between identity, performance, gender, emotion, cinema and reality’
-Performing Lines
‘…most fascinating, and unnerving, was the overlap between the fictional and real-life risk that Sadiq places herself in.’
-The Globe and Mail
‘The Second Woman is not only remarkable for the endurance of its lead performer. it’s also a demonstration of the power of formal experimentation and a stunning creative feat, from concept to execution’
-The Guardian
Photo: Brian Medina/Harbourfront Centre
The Orchard (After Chekhov)
‘The Orchard (After Chekhov) breathes fresh cultural life into a classic.’
-The Georgia Straight
‘Laara Sadiq manages to imbue the potentially unfeeling Loveleen with humanity…’
-Vancouver Presents
‘Laara Sadiq, as always, brings strength and dignity to her role.’
-Jo Ledingham Theatre Reviews
Photo: David Cooper
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time boasts a knockout performance and expressive design’
- The Georgia Straight
‘A spectacular show that brings together incredible acting and a great story’
- Broadway World
Happy Place 2017
'I was knocked out by Laara Sadiq's performance as the insinuating, unbalanced Nina. I've been watching Sadiq for decades and I've never seen anything like this reptilian texture.'
- colinthomas.ca
'It's hard to imagine a more dynamic group of actors.'
- Jo Ledingham, Westender
'Laara Sadiq's Nina...studies in containment and release.'
- Kathleen Oliver, The Georgia Straight
Photo: Tim Matheson
Bard on the Beach 2017
'Much Ado About Nothing...pulls out all the stops...a wildly entertaining audience pleaser with smarts.'
- Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail
'The Winter's Tale brings exquisite magic to Bard on the Beach Stage.'
- The Georgia Straight
Photo: David Blue
Brothel #9 2016
'Most fascinating of all is Laara Sadiq's Jamuna: an always credible cocktail of generosity and selfishness, piety and debasement, clear headedness and denial."
- Kathleen Oliver, The Georgia Straight
'Playing Jamuna, Laara Sadiq is superb.'
- colinthomas.ca
'As Jamuna, Sadiq has as many colours as the various saris her character wears: fierce, violent, passionate, devastated, humiliated and grovelling.'
- Jo Ledingham Theatre Reviews
Photo: Tim Matheson
Photo: David Cooper
"Laara Sadiq’s Ezra is an icon of tightly wound intellect and ambition"
-The Georgia Straight – Colin Thomas
"…a provocative play with all 11 roles superbly performed by Murphy, Sadiq, Wheeler and Richards"
-The Vancouver Courier – Jo Ledingham
"Touchstone Theatre’s West Coast premiere of Anton Piatigorsky’s Eternal Hydra is a magnificent dangerous beast"
-Plank Magazine – Danielle Benzon
The Penelopiad
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Photo: David Cooper
"Sadiq, beautiful as ever, makes a gorgeously nasty Helen"
-Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier
"One of the strongest ensemble casts to ever grace a Vancouver stage. Colleen Wheeler and Laara Sadiq are particular standouts thanks to showy dual roles as Odysseus and Helen of Troy"
-Andrea Warner, WestEnder
"Laara Sadiq is a playfully seductive Helen of Troy"
-Mark Robins, GayVancouver.com
"Porteous is working with several of the city’s greatest actors, a band of women that can do justice to Atwood’s ambitious tale"
-Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail
St. Carmen of The Main
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
Photo: Bruce Zinger
"In Carmen actress Laara Sadiq, director Peter Hinton has a powerhouse whose fervour is palpable"
-Eye Weekly
"A salty new translation by Linda Gaboriau and a cast full of first rate actors"
-The Globe and Mail
No Exit
Monday, 07 June 2010
Photo: Barbara Zimonick
"Laara Sadiq plays cleverly with film noir as Inez, the old-fashioned predatory lesbian"
-San Francisco Chronicle
"Superb:Laara Sadiq takes the role of the stereotypical man hating lesbian and makes is witty and coolly sophisticated"
-Colin Thomas Georgia Straight
"Laara Sadiq cuts to the bone as the lesbian secretary Inez, her raspy snarl a mordant counterpoint to:bottle blond Estelle"
-Eleni Deacon Eye Weekly
"The women are fiercely specific, Laara Sadiqs bruised incisiveness as Inez balancing the elegant meltdown of Estelle"
-Robert Cushman National Post
"Flawless"
-Rob Clark Calgary Herald
Excited
Sunday, 06 June 2010
Photo: Cate Cameron
"Sadiq provides the perfect level of sultry angst"
-Jessie Wente TIFF
"Stars Cam Cronin and Laara Sadiq bring humour and sincerity to their respective roles, ensuring the smaller points in this dissection of human bonding are never lost to boldfaced dilemma
-Katherine Monk, Vancouver Sun
"Cronin & Sadiq deliver mature performances"
-NOW Magazine
"Laara Sadiq: beautiful, funny and smart"
-EmpireMovies.com
Palace of the End
Saturday, 05 June 2010
Photo: Milan Radovanovic
"Laara Sadiq is luminous and admirably restrained"
-Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
"Sadiq closes the the 90 minute, no intermission show with an absolutely stunning performance; we hang on each word as if it is a lifeline. Nehrjas Al-Saffarh was handsome, wise and brave, and Sadiqs performance is all of these"
-Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier
"Sadiq is simply astonishing as a strong willed Sunni woman tortured by the Baathist henchmen:as this actress steps into the skin of a proud wife, mother and Communist, her exquisite performance is made all the more forceful"
-Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
Age of Arousal
Thursday, 03 June 2010
Photo: Emily Cooper
"Laara Sadiq combines intelligence with passion in a razor sharp performance as Rhoda"
-Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
Hecuba
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Photo: Tim Matheson
"Laara Sadiq is the chorus leader who relates simply and movingly the sacking of Troy"
-Jo Ledingham Vancouver Courier
"Laara Sadiq, who plays the chorus leader, makes the most effective choices, speaking with conversational simplicity and persuasive gravity"
-Colin Thomas The Georgia Straight
Adrift on the Nile
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Photo: Tim Matheson
"Playing a rebellious rich woman named Saniya, Laara Sadiq is lethally sexy"
-Colin Thomas The Georgia Straight
Pink Sugar
Tuesday, 01 June 2010
Photo: Tim Matheson
"Sylvie, played by Laara Sadiq with a snarly sort of Jennifer Saunders tone to her voice, is vile little thing"
-Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun