by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2018 | Review
> Colin Thomas There are a whole lot of performers on the fringe festival circuit who lean too heavily on the eccentricity of their delivery. But it doesn’t matter how quickly you can talk, how much you flap around, how much you sweat, or how cunningly you can...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2018 | Review
> Sarvin Esmaeili * The speed of Jon Bennett’s storytelling left me open-mouthed. He starts by casually chatting with the audience. Then he subtly shifts into the heart of his show with the question, “How many of you have missed your plane before?…...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 12, 2018 | Review
> Sarvin Ismaeili * Small Town Boys helped me to understand men’s vulnerability. Performer/writer Sean Casey Leclaire introduces us to a group of boys who start hanging out together in suburban Montreal in 1970. Then the narrator follows his pals Bruno and Triple D...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 12, 2018 | Review
> Colin Thomas Watching Gemma Wilcox perform is kind of like reading a children’s book—in which nothing much happens. If Magical Mystery Detour were a kids’ book, the emphasis would definitely be on the illustrations. In this one-woman show, Wilcox’s central...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 11, 2018 | Review
> Colin Thomas When you unwrap Self-ish, there’s a gift waiting for you, but you’ve got to paw your way through a lot of packing material to get to it. In this monologue, playwright Kuan Foo introduces us to a 35-year-old Korean-Canadian woman named Esther. She’s...
