by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2014 | Review
You know how laughter sometimes just keeps spooling out of you, like it’s this great, long silken rope and you can’t believe how much of it there is? Like you just sit there helplessly and shake while it keeps unraveling? Kids laugh like that all the time....
by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2014 | Review
With annoying regularity, I’ll write a review that goes online or into print, and I’ll think, “Damn! I wish I’d analyzed that more perceptively” That happened recently with my review of Susinn McFarlen’s Since You Left Us. In my...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 17, 2014 | Review
On Sunday night Kathleen Oliver and I gave the Georgia Straight Critics’ Choice Award to Jayson McDonald’s Magic Unicorn Island. McDonald is an immensely skilled performer: he’s got a great sense of theatricality and few people can portray innocence...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 13, 2014 | Review
Kathleen Oliver and I have picked the nominees for this year’s Critics’ Choice Award at the Vancouver Fringe. They are: Chase and Stacey’s Joyride, Dirty Old Woman, Little One, Magic Unicorn Island, and Moonlight After Midnight. Terrific shows, all...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 9, 2014 | Review
From what Kathleen Oliver and I have seen in covering the Fringe for the Georgia Straight, here are our top ten shows—and a couple of other tips. My list includes: Moonlight After Midnight, Magic Unicorn Island, Chase and Stacey’s Joyride, Verbal Diarrhea,...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 6, 2014 | Review
So far, I’ve seen 15 shows that are playing the Vancouver Fringe Festival: four are stand-outs. Topping my list is Jayson McDonald’s Magic Unicorn Island, a satire in which the kids of the world all move to an isolated island to protest their...
