A Vista: a trip

  Hunker down because this is going to sound dull at first, but it’s not; I rarely experience such aesthetic exhilaration at the theatre. A Vista consists of three parts: “Full Drops”, which I saw last night; “Portals”, which is playing tonight (March 21),...

Marine Life: a bit watered down

Guest review by David Johnston There are several plays inside Ruby Slippers Theatre’s production of Marine Life. I even enjoyed one of them. My favorite Marine Life is the screwball romantic comedy. Here, lawyer Rupert (Sebastien Archibald) and activist Sylvia...

Gross Misconduct: the writer overplays her hand

This play could have been more than it is. In Meghan Gardiner’s Gross Misconduct, Deke, who’s been in jail for a long time—and who, incredibly, seems to have had a two-bunk cell to himself for years—finds out that he’s got a cellmate all of a sudden: a young guy named...

Jesus Christ: The Lost Years. Why?

There’s nothing seriously wrong with Jesus Christ: The Lost Years. And there are some things that are majorly right. I’m just not super clear on why it exists. In this hour-long show, writers Ryan Gladstone, Katherine Sanders, and Bruce Horak imagine what Jesus might...

Reverberations: intermittent seismic activity

One of the sections in Reverberations, an installation/performance piece by Brian Linds, knocked me out. In Reverberations, Linds, who has worked primarily as a sound designer for the past several years, explores his family history through five pieces that are all set...