by Colin Thomas | Jun 17, 2022 | Review
Bard on the Beach in general and director Scott Bellis in particular have a bad habit of obscuring Shakespearean texts by slathering on coarse physical comedy. In Bellis’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there’s a lot of very enthusiastic slathering. Yes,...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 11, 2022 | Review
I’m rarely this bored in the theatre. During Act 1 of Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid, I reassured myself by mentally repeating, “You have free will. You can leave at intermission.” My companion didn’t want to leave. Act 2 was a bit better. My big problem with...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 5, 2022 | Review
As I’m writing this, Re:Current Theatre’s New Societies is finishing up the last matinée of its run at Vancouver’s rEvolver Festival. The good news is that it’s going to be touring in Ontario this summer. I knew when I booked this show that its short Vancouver run was...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 4, 2022 | Review
Stylistically, Vietgone is a huge mountain to climb. This production only gets part way up. But it’s an interesting evening — and provocative in productive ways. Off the top, an actor impersonating the play’s author Qui Nguyen tells us that this script is definitely...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 3, 2022 | Review
There’s some very nice work in the Firehall Art Centre’s production of Yellow Fever, but, under Donna Spencer’s direction, the production always feels slightly out of focus. Rick Shiomi’s film-noir style script is about Sam Shikaze, a classically hardboiled detective...
