by Colin Thomas | Oct 31, 2021 | Review
The short review is that it doesn’t work. But at least it doesn’t work for interesting reasons. Encore Productions, the same folks who brought us Imagine Van Gogh, which has now closed in Vancouver, are offering Imagine Picasso. Like Imagine Van Gogh, Imagine Picasso...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 9, 2021 | Review
There’s skill on display here, but I don’t know what it’s in service of. In Spinning You Home, playwright Sally Stubbs freely embellishes the true story of John “Cariboo” Cameron, a nineteenth-century prospector who struck it rich in the Cariboo Gold Rush, but is more...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2021 | Review
I’ve never been more alert to shimmering life than in the weeks preceding my friend Len’s assisted death. Presence was the gift of their passing. That’s also the substance of Will Eno’s Wakey, Wakey, which is seamlessly well realized in Pacific Theatre’s production....
