by Colin Thomas | Sep 27, 2017 | Review
Vancouver Greenroom: theatre is community FAILURE IS ESSENTIAL Comedian, actor, and filmmaker Mike Birbiglia offers some of the best artistic advice ever. Highlights include, “Failure is essential. There’s no substitute for it. It’s not just encouraged but required.”...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2017 | Review
Japanese Problem is delicate production, but it packs a punch. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, thousands of Canadian citizens of Japanese origin were removed from the West Coast and forced to live in internment camps in the BC interior...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 21, 2017 | Review
Vancouver Greenroom: theatre is community MEANINGFUL INVITATION “Perfection is the enemy of excellence.” Doesn’t that sentence make your shoulders relax? Wouldn’t it be lovely to hear it during rehearsals? It’s a sentence favoured by Simone Hamilton, one of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 21, 2017 | Review
I love class analysis. Posh is packed with class analysis. So why does this script, which premiered in London in 2010, not work for me in this Vancouver production in 2017? In Laura Wade’s play, a group that calls itself The Riot Club meets in the private dining room...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 17, 2017 | Review
The Christians: if you’re not Christian, what’s in this play for you? Not a lot in terms of moral complexity. But a fair bit in terms of theatricality. In Lucas Hnath’s script, Pastor Paul is the leader of a gigantic evangelical congregation: his church has thousands...
