by Colin Thomas | Nov 9, 2018 | Review
There seem to be at least a couple of good stories in the source material for Three Winters, but writer and director Amiel Gladstone hasn’t figured out how to tell them. Gladstone based Three Winters on his grandfather’s memories of being a prisoner of war in Stalag...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 8, 2018 | Review
Check out the texture of this piece. (In Vancouver, SmallWaR is being performed in English). There are passages in SmallWaR that are as exquisite as anything I’ve seen. The opening is a stunner. Valentijn Dhaenens, the Belgian artist who created SmallWaR, also...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 8, 2018 | Review
Here’s some information about David Petersen’s memorial that I didn’t get in time to include in this morning’s FRESH SHEET. It will be held on Sunday, November 25, at PAL (581 Cardero Street) starting at 4:00 p.m. David’s family is asking folks, if they’re...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 3, 2018 | Review
Aaron Bushkowsky’s new script Red Birds is flat-out dumb and—very occasionally—funny. It’s tricky to talk about this play without giving away major plot points, but I’ll do my best. In Red Birds, Carol, who has just turned 50, contacts her birth mother Hannah for the...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 1, 2018 | Review
The Believers Are But Brothers is about the internet and it’s like the internet: it’s bursting with information and I’m not sure how to make sense of it, but I find it really fucking stimulating. In The Believers Are But Brothers—the title comes from the Quran—writer...
