by Colin Thomas | Aug 17, 2021 | Review
For me, the two most personalized passages in Done/Undone, screenwriter Kate Besworth’s new film about the current relevancy — or irrelevancy — of Shakespeare’s work, are also the most successful. In Done/Undone, which was initially commissioned by Bard on the Beach...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 6, 2021 | Review
Maybe the best way to see these two short scripts is as seedlings. In Gather: Stories in Nature, Shayna Jones and Cameron Peal both perform solo plays they’ve written about their relationships to the earth. In a (mostly) productive decision, their work is being...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 4, 2021 | Review
The Magic Hour opened me up and rearranged me. It was extraordinary. The Magic Hour offers an immersive experience that audience members go through one at a time — or in pairs if you need to. The idea is that you’re finishing a dog walk and re-entering your home...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 30, 2021 | Review
I cried with other people and laughed with them. We shared the space with a skilled and responsive performer. Together, we all slipped into the land of deliberate artifice and came out the other side with our hearts bigger and, in my case at least, more relaxed. Last...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2021 | Review
This is what performance — what gathering — can be. Last Thursday, I attended and participated in Sii ye’yu (friends, relatives), an event created by Mortal Coil (a theatre company headed by settler artists) and Tsatsu Stalqayu (an Indigenous family group also known...
