by Colin Thomas | Oct 19, 2018 | Review
This is a guest review by David Johnston * Kill Me Now is a play that’s smart enough to pretend to be the boring version of itself for awhile. That’s a rather complicated compliment, so let’s break it down. We open with single father Jake Sturdy (Bob...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 13, 2018 | Review
Watching this production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, I felt ridiculously lucky. The show is so strong and its storefront location in Gastown so intimate that I felt like a cast of stars had shown up in my living room to perform a masterpiece....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 12, 2018 | Review
You’d think that a play about the last days of the human race might have some kind of tension, some kind of stakes, but nope, not this one. In A Brief History of Human Extinction, which was created by Jordan Hall and Mind of a Snail (Jessica Gabriel and Chloé Ziner),...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 6, 2018 | Review
This is a guest review by David Johnston * It’s as frustrating as hell. Except that’s a feature, not a bug. Honestly, I think most Samuel Beckett scripts, if done right, are going to occasionally frustrate the hell out of audiences. The Irish modernist...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 6, 2018 | Review
Incognito Mode examines porn—while wearing rubber gloves. Amazingly, given the subject, there isn’t a millisecond of eroticism and there’s no real immersion in shame. This might be a dangerous thing to say of a show about porn, but I wanted it to go deeper. To create...
