Theatre @ York launches its 2011-2012 season with the world premiere of a new adaptation of John Vanbrugh’s English Restoration romp, The Provok’d Wife. Director Vikki Anderson (left), of Toronto’s DVxT Theatre Company, commissioned playwright and actor Rick Roberts to rework this tragicomic roller coaster ride on the subject of relationships. Witness the rich behaving badly […]
Long the goal of marriage, “happily ever after” is being reimagined by books and movies as the chief export of divorce, wrote Postmedia News July 12. A leading Canadian divorce researcher, however, warns that escapism carries a high price, if not for couples who’ve survived a split than for those teetering on the edge of […]
James Morton, adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Anne-Marie Ambert, a retired professor in York’s Department of Sociology, both spoke to Postmedia News November 5 about divorce insurance being offered to couples in the United States. The story appeared in the Montreal Gazette, among other outlets: Because the “for poorer” part of marriage […]