by Colin Thomas | Jun 23, 2018 | Review
It could have been a stupid gimmick. Instead, it’s transcendent In this Bard on the Beach production of As You Like It, director Daryl Cloran has excised about half of Shakespeare’s text and replaced it with Beatles songs. Cloran sets his production in British...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 18, 2018 | Review
Macbeth! All shouting! All the time! Okay, they’re not shouting all the time, but there is a heck of a lot of hollering in director Chris Abraham’s take on the Scottish play and all of that volume keeps us on the surface of the text. Moya O’Connell’s Lady Macbeth is a...
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...
