by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2025 | Review
Talk about innovation. Talk about risk. Talk about reward. Talk about writer and director Niall McNeil’s Beauty and the Beast: My Life. Be patient with me. I want to get into the thematic content of this piece — because I find it so compelling — before I try to give...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2025 | Review
It’s been two years since Behind the Moon premiered in Toronto. Since then, it’s had only one production, in Victoria. That’s kind of nuts. This script should be getting produced across the country. So thanks to director Lois Anderson and the impeccable company of...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 22, 2025 | Review
Catherine Léger’s Home Deliveries is about sex as possession, which is how she frames monogamy. Based on the 1970s movie, Deux femmes en or, an erotic comedy, Home Deliveries follows Florence and Violet, heterosexually married women who live next to each other in an...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 14, 2025 | Review
A bunch of Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band didn’t work for me, but I’m glad to see the Arts Club producing it. Yee’s script is a light-hearted and sentimental fantasy — with surfer rock songs — about the still-reverberating tremors of the Khmer Rouge’s reign of...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 9, 2025 | Review
A Taste of Hong Kong engaged me — enough that I wanted it to engage me more. I was never bored. Written by Anonymous and performed by Derek Chan, this solo show starts off as a cooking class led by an energetic guy named Jackie. Teaching us about Hong Kong street...
