by Colin Thomas | Feb 12, 2023 | Review
Watching a tender kids’ show is a very pleasant way to spend 45 minutes on a Sunday morning. Writer Anaïs Pellin started her process with Clementine: A (True) Story during a workshop in Belgium, where she’s from. (Pellin is now based in Vancouver.) The workshop was...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 10, 2023 | Review
Not to take anything away from the actors or anybody else, the real stars of this premiere stage production of The Cull are director Mindy Parfitt and set designer Amir Ofek. Their treatment of Michelle Riml and Michael St. John Smith’s script elevates it...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2023 | Review
Exquisitely directed and designed, and responsively acted, An Undeveloped Sound is, nonetheless, thematically repetitive and therefor dull. Jonathon Young has set his new script in a call centre located in a crumbling, repurposed commercial outlet near an ocean. In my...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 31, 2023 | Review
THREE-ACT TEMPLATE ACT 1 Ordinary World We see hero’s (the protagonist’s) world as it exists before their adventure begins. The Ordinary World may contain an event called the Inciting Incident, which kicks the story into action. Call to Adventure In the Call to...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 20, 2023 | Review
Considering the emotional nature of the material — the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II and the abuse of prisoners of war in Japanese prison camps — Forgiveness falls surprisingly flat. Playwright Hiro Kanagawa’s stage adaptation is drawn from Mark...
