by Colin Thomas | Jun 16, 2018 | Review
She never steps onto the stage, but Shizuka Kai is the star of Slime. Kai designed the set, props, and puppets and her vision is one of the major forces that holds this production together. In Slime, playwright Bryony Lavery imagines the third international conference...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 10, 2018 | Review
I could see a couple of doors that promised access to Victim Impact, but I couldn’t open either of them. This new documentary piece from Theatre Conspiracy explores the biggest Ponzi scheme in British Columbia history. Between 2003 and 2012, Rashida Samji, who is a...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 9, 2018 | Review
I thought I didn’t need to see another production of The Diary of Anne Frank. I was wrong. This production from Fighting Chance deepened and revitalized the story for me and introduced me to exciting new talent. Wendy Kesselman’s 1997 adaption, which is being used...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 8, 2018 | Review
If you’re not having a good time onstage, you shouldn’t be there. Everybody in this cast of Nell Gwynn deserves to be onstage: they are having a fucking laugh riot. And their pleasure is infectious: the evening is infused with joy. Playwright Jessica Swale shows us...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 2, 2018 | Review
There’s no way to write this review that is both comfortable and honest. In C’mon, Angie!, Reed and Angie have just had a one-night stand and we witness the fraught morning after—well, the fraught pre-dawn. In two significant ways, Reed failed to get clear consent...
