by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2019 | Review
I thought it was never going to end. Then, after two hours, the lights finally came up—but it was only intermission. We had another hour and a half to go. Playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica is about the current murky codependence between China and the States. To...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 28, 2019 | Review
There are good bits, but overall it’s a mess. And the primary faults are in the writing and direction. In The Orchard (After Chekhov), Sarena Parmar, who grew up in Kelowna, resets Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard in the Okanagan in 1974. The central...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 21, 2019 | Review
Hunker down because this is going to sound dull at first, but it’s not; I rarely experience such aesthetic exhilaration at the theatre. A Vista consists of three parts: “Full Drops”, which I saw last night; “Portals”, which is playing tonight (March 21),...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 17, 2019 | Review
Guest review by David Johnston There are several plays inside Ruby Slippers Theatre’s production of Marine Life. I even enjoyed one of them. My favorite Marine Life is the screwball romantic comedy. Here, lawyer Rupert (Sebastien Archibald) and activist Sylvia...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Review
This play could have been more than it is. In Meghan Gardiner’s Gross Misconduct, Deke, who’s been in jail for a long time—and who, incredibly, seems to have had a two-bunk cell to himself for years—finds out that he’s got a cellmate all of a sudden: a young guy named...
