by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2013 | Review
I was dazzled by the horse puppets and I cried a couple of times—but often I was bored. War Horse is a disappointingly empty spectacle. The story is about a 16-year-old English lad named Albert, and his hunter, Joey. When his dad sells Joey into military use at the...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 19, 2013 | Review
Again this year, the Vancouver Fringe Festival is holding over some of its most popular shows. Of those, I highly recommend 6 Guitars and Unpossible! In 6 Guitars, Chase Padgett becomes half a dozen characters who all play the guitar in different styles. His...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 3, 2013 | Review
This year at the Victoria Fringe Festival I learned never to trust my intuition: shows that I thought looked like caca turned out to be great; others, that I thought were guaranteed winners, not so much. I’d read the book version of Alison Wearing’s...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 1, 2013 | Review
There are a bunch of good shows up this summer. Here are my picks. Of the shows I’ve seen at Bard on the Beach (Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Elizabeth Rex), I highly recommend Hamlet. In her contemporary staging, director Kim Collier goes a little tech-crazy, but...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 27, 2013 | Review
The Arts Club’s production of Avenue Q is pretty much perfect. No kidding. A distillation of the concerns of Gen X, Avenue Q explores the struggles of a group of young adults who are finding out they’re not as special as they’ve been brought up to...
