by Colin Thomas | Apr 19, 2025 | Review
Jane Austen’s novels are known for their wry wit and nuanced observation of gender and class among the landed English gentry in the late eighteenth century. Kate Hamill’s stage adaptation of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is more like… a cartoon? A panto? A very long...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 12, 2025 | Review
Dead Drone is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen thousands of shows. It’s the writing. Even scripts this bad often start off with the best of intentions, of course. In Dead Drone, playwright David Mott takes on climate change, the toxicity of social...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 4, 2025 | Review
It’s not terrible. That’s the best I can muster. Playwright and director Mieko Ouchi’s Burning Mom, which is based on her own mom’s experience, is about a 63-year-old Calgary woman named Dorothy, who heads off to Burning Man with her adult son Kevin and his pal...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 31, 2025 | Review
Talk about innovation. Talk about risk. Talk about reward. Talk about writer and director Niall McNeil’s Beauty and the Beast: My Life. Be patient with me. I want to get into the thematic content of this piece — because I find it so compelling — before I try to give...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2025 | Review
It’s been two years since Behind the Moon premiered in Toronto. Since then, it’s had only one production, in Victoria. That’s kind of nuts. Anosh Irani’s script should be getting produced across the country. So thanks to director Lois Anderson and the impeccable...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 22, 2025 | Review
Catherine Léger’s Home Deliveries is about sex as possession, which is how she frames monogamy. Based on the 1970s movie, Deux femmes en or, an erotic comedy, Home Deliveries follows Florence and Violet, heterosexually married women who live next to each other in an...
