by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2012 | Review
In my review of director David Mackay’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, I said that his take is vulgar. Because it is. There’s a fart joke, a cunt joke (yep using the word), and a penis joke (see the above photo). Rather than concentrating...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 29, 2012 | Review
If you’re a writer, you might want to know what I actually do when I’m editing your work. Basically, I read your manuscript three times. THE FIRST READ The first read-through is all about my visceral responses to your story. On this reading, I take very...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 19, 2012 | Review
If you can get in, the show to see this week is Bob Frazer’s production of Hedda Gabler at Roedde House in the West End. Anna Cummer (above) plays Hedda and, in Cummer’s interpretation, Hedda feels almost sociopathic; it’s clear that she just...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 12, 2012 | Review
Max Reimer can’t be held responsible for the death of the Playhouse. I don’t think Max was the right person for the job, but nobody has been the right person since Larry Lillo; Glynis Leyshon wasn’t and Susan Cox certainly wasn’t. The Playhouse...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 9, 2012 | Review
The teachers’ job actions, which I fully support, may have an unintended casualty: Carousel Theatre’s production of A Year with Frog and Toad. I saw this production last season and it’s lovely. Todd Talbot is a charmingly effervescent Frog, and Josue...
