by Colin Thomas | Sep 21, 2017 | Review
Vancouver Greenroom: theatre is community MEANINGFUL INVITATION “Perfection is the enemy of excellence.” Doesn’t that sentence make your shoulders relax? Wouldn’t it be lovely to hear it during rehearsals? It’s a sentence favoured by Simone Hamilton, one of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 21, 2017 | Review
I love class analysis. Posh is packed with class analysis. So why does this script, which premiered in London in 2010, not work for me in this Vancouver production in 2017? In Laura Wade’s play, a group that calls itself The Riot Club meets in the private dining room...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 17, 2017 | Review
The Christians: if you’re not Christian, what’s in this play for you? Not a lot in terms of moral complexity. But a fair bit in terms of theatricality. In Lucas Hnath’s script, Pastor Paul is the leader of a gigantic evangelical congregation: his church has thousands...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 16, 2017 | Review
Like a fever dream, this production of Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika comes and goes. Sometimes, I was completely in its thrall. At other times, I popped out of the experience and thought, “Oh. I’m in a theatre. And not much is happening.” This mix of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 14, 2017 | Review
Here you go: my final reviews, Executing Justice and Let Me Freeze Your Head—critiques 28 and 29—from this year’s Vancouver Fringe. Neither review is enthusiastic, but…there are a lot of excellent shows at the festival. Of the performances I’ve been to, the...
