by Colin Thomas | Mar 10, 2023 | Review
There might be a satisfying production to be had based on Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility but I haven’t seen it yet. The script itself is problematic. In the story, when Henry Dashwood dies, the law says his estate, including his...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 4, 2023 | Review
This style is so hard to pull off. But this creative team is mostly doing it very well — sometimes astonishingly so. Zahida Rahemtulla’s The Wrong Bashir is a farce. An Ismaili farce. In the story, a nominating committee selects Bashir Ladha, a philosophy student who...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 25, 2023 | Review
The Woman in Black is a good ol’ yarn and I am for that. On one level, Stephen Mallatratt’s script, which he adapted from Dame Susan Hill’s novel, is a straight-up ghost story — and it scared the bejeezus out of me a couple of times. (Fellow critic Jo Ledingham, who...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 19, 2023 | Review
Although it contains things to admire, this production of Teenage Dick feels too much like an afterschool special or not great theatre for young people. Teenage Dick is playwright Mike Lew’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s Richard III as a high school drama....
by Colin Thomas | Feb 18, 2023 | Review
Corey Payette’s new musical Starwalker is going to be meaningful to a lot of different people for a lot of different reasons. And there’s significant talent on the stage. I don’t mean to deny any of that when I say that, from a craft perspective, especially the craft...
