by Colin Thomas | Feb 4, 2018 | Review
War is fought on women’s bodies. That truth is at the heart of Lynn Nottage’s Ruined. Nottage sets Ruined during the war in Congo, which was officially over in 2002 but continues to rage. The action unfolds in Mama Nadi’s roadside canteen and brothel. Government and...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2018 | Review
For a script with such an earthy title, Shit is oddly abstract. In Shit, Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius presents us with three incarcerated women. Billy, Bob, and Sam have all grown up in foster care and they have all been brutalized sexually, emotionally,...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 2, 2018 | Review
There are a whole lot of skilled artists at work here and there are a couple of good laughs in the script. Mostly, though, David French’s Jitters is a waste of precious theatre time. Jitters is a backstage comedy, a show about putting on a show. In it, a Toronto...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 1, 2018 | Review
Theatre moves me to tears on a regular basis. But after watching King Arthur’s Night I flat out sobbed. This show speaks so concretely—and so skilfully—to isolation and inclusion. The publicity material for King Arthur’s Night describes it as “radically inclusive”—and...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 28, 2018 | Review
This production of Annie Baker’s The Aliens is one of the best shows of the season. Go see it. I love virtually everything about it and the tickets only cost seventeen bucks. Baker’s script is exquisite. In it, Jasper and KJ, a couple of slackers, hang out in the...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 27, 2018 | Review
The best fairytales don’t explain themselves or make arguments. They speak the more compelling and flexible language of symbolism. Unfortunately, Sleeping Beauty Dreams reinvents the Sleeping Beauty story as a rational thesis. In Amaranta Leyva’s version of the tale,...
