by Colin Thomas | Jul 17, 2018 | Review
At the 2018 Jessie Richardson Awards, which took place in the Bard on the Beach mainstage tent for the first time this year, the juries heavily favoured three companies: Rumble, the Arts Club, and Green Thumb. There are three main categories at the Jessie Awards:...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 14, 2018 | Review
Let’s all just agree to see everything that Lois Anderson directs from now on, okay? Two years ago, her reinvention of Pericles for Bard on the Beach was a revelation. And this year she has brought us a Lysistrata that’s so fresh I feel younger after seeing it....
by Colin Thomas | Jul 11, 2018 | Review
As a script, Timon of Athens has problems. Director Meg Roe’s production for Bard on the Beach doesn’t help it out. There are good reasons why Timon doesn’t enjoy a lot of productions. The play, which Shakespeare probably co-wrote with Thomas Middleton, features a...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 29, 2018 | Review
Pearle Harbour’s Chautauquais like a revival meeting for liberals—and a lot of us could use reviving these days. Chautauquas were a kind of tent meeting popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offered a combination of entertainment and...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 24, 2018 | Review
Once is more than enough. Yes, Once won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical in 2012, along with six other Tonys. And it has hauled in a bunch of other prizes, too, but man it’s boring! Here’s the plot: boy meets girl; they dither endlessly. To be...
