by Colin Thomas | Jul 17, 2018 | Review
At the 2018 Jessie Richardson Awards, which took place in the Bard on the Beach mainstage tent for the first time this year, the juries heavily favoured three companies: Rumble, the Arts Club, and Green Thumb. There are three main categories at the Jessie Awards:...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 14, 2018 | Review
Let’s all just agree to see everything that Lois Anderson directs from now on, okay? Two years ago, her reinvention of Pericles for Bard on the Beach was a revelation. And this year she has brought us a Lysistrata that’s so fresh I feel younger after seeing it....
by Colin Thomas | Jul 11, 2018 | Review
As a script, Timon of Athens has problems. Director Meg Roe’s production for Bard on the Beach doesn’t help it out. There are good reasons why Timon doesn’t enjoy a lot of productions. The play, which Shakespeare probably co-wrote with Thomas Middleton, features a...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 29, 2018 | Review
Pearle Harbour’s Chautauquais like a revival meeting for liberals—and a lot of us could use reviving these days. Chautauquas were a kind of tent meeting popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offered a combination of entertainment and...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 24, 2018 | Review
Once is more than enough. Yes, Once won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical in 2012, along with six other Tonys. And it has hauled in a bunch of other prizes, too, but man it’s boring! Here’s the plot: boy meets girl; they dither endlessly. To be...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 23, 2018 | Review
It could have been a stupid gimmick. Instead, it’s transcendent In this Bard on the Beach production of As You Like It, director Daryl Cloran has excised about half of Shakespeare’s text and replaced it with Beatles songs. Cloran sets his production in British...
