by Colin Thomas | Nov 27, 2015 | Review
Full disclosure: this post is essentially an ad for my substantive editing services. You’ve been warned. 🙂 But, you know, read it anyway; you never know when you’re going to need a good editor. Okay, here goes. I’m not one of those guys who gets all...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 20, 2015 | Review
This is another note about my experience of Radix Theatre’s TBD, which was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It’s over now, but it was an immersive theatrical experience in which participants were guided through an imaginary process of dying,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 13, 2015 | Review
I really like this dying thing. I’ve been participating in TBD, Radix Theatre’s immersive theatrical experience. It’s based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is all about guiding the soul through death to rebirth. Every day for 21 days, folks...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 10, 2015 | Review
Hey writers. Through a program called Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, you can get yourself a personal mentor. And the mentors are pretty great. They include: Karen X. Tulchinsky (screenplays), Claudia Casper (novels), and Shaena Lambert (novels and short stories). The...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 9, 2015 | Review
I want to give a shout-out to Heather Redfern, the executive director at the Cultch. Already, this fall, I’ve seen three remarkable shows in Cultch venues. The Australian acrobats who performed A Simple Space at the York reminded me of the wild joy of being in a...