by Colin Thomas | Jun 28, 2019 | Review
Athol Fugard’s 1965 scripts Hello and Goodbye largely fails as drama, but it contains two excellent roles for actors — and the performers who are taking on those parts in this production are really, really good. Set in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Hello and...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 22, 2019 | Review
My experience of Shakespeare in Love at Bard on the Beach was kind of like an okay date that ended with some fantastic making out. The morning after, am I in love with this show? Nope, not by a long shot, although I’m grateful for the pleasures it offers. Lee...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 17, 2019 | Review
Director Lois Anderson has brought us the all-yelling version of The Taming of the Shrew. It offers virtually no emotional access. And it doesn’t make sense. In Shakespeare’s controversial script, Petruchio, who wants to marry a wealthy woman, sets his sites on Kate,...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 14, 2019 | Review
Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline is like a dream of cool masculinity — as conjured by a deeply reactionary 14-year-old straight boy. Consider the hero of George F. Walker’s 1977 play, which draws heavily on the 1810 novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Having killed over...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 8, 2019 | Review
In 2011 in a forest glade somewhere in Wiltshire, England, lives Johnny “Rooster” Byron in a trailer surrounded by trash. A middle-aged waster, he hosts alcohol- and drug-laced parties for the local teenagers. There’s a new housing estate nearby and the town council...
