This week, I have two shows to recommend: Good People and Onegin. Both are from the Arts Club.
If you haven’t already seen Onegin, buy your damn tickets! The run is selling out—partly because people are seeing Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone’s vivacious adaptation of Pushkin’s verse novel three and four times.
The regular run of Onegin continues until April 10. And the Arts Club has been able to add three more shows: Tuesday, April 12, at 7:30, and Wednesday, April 13, at 1:30 and 7:30.
So grab yourself some seats. Don’t let those piggy repeaters suck them all up.
And Good People has just opened at the Stanley. The Act 1 set-up is laboured, but Act 2 catches fire.
Set in Boston, largely in a poor neighbourhood called Southie, Good People examines the stories that we tell ourselves about economic class.
David Lindsay-Abaire’s script asks nuanced questions and it’s often funny.
Laughlin Johnston’s set is superbly cinematic. Just wait till you see those rooms sliding together like puzzle pieces.
And there are some terrific performances, especially from Colleen Wheeler, Scott Bellis, and Jenn Griffin.
Vancouver theatre artists often diss the Arts Club. It’s a big commercial theatre, so it’s a large target, and it’s good for producers, large and small, to be held to account. But, right now, let’s give the company credit for two solid shows, one of which is an original local creation.
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