by Colin Thomas | Oct 20, 2013 | Review
The line-up is dizzying. Some of Canada’s major playwrights—folks like Daniel MacIvor, George F. Walker, Morris Panych, and Ronnie Burkett—will all be on the bill when Zee Zee Theatre presents Nyet this coming Sunday, October 27 at the Arts Club’s...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 25, 2013 | Review
I was dazzled by the horse puppets and I cried a couple of times—but often I was bored. War Horse is a disappointingly empty spectacle. The story is about a 16-year-old English lad named Albert, and his hunter, Joey. When his dad sells Joey into military use at the...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 19, 2013 | Review
Again this year, the Vancouver Fringe Festival is holding over some of its most popular shows. Of those, I highly recommend 6 Guitars and Unpossible! In 6 Guitars, Chase Padgett becomes half a dozen characters who all play the guitar in different styles. His...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 3, 2013 | Review
This year at the Victoria Fringe Festival I learned never to trust my intuition: shows that I thought looked like caca turned out to be great; others, that I thought were guaranteed winners, not so much. I’d read the book version of Alison Wearing’s...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 1, 2013 | Review
There are a bunch of good shows up this summer. Here are my picks. Of the shows I’ve seen at Bard on the Beach (Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Elizabeth Rex), I highly recommend Hamlet. In her contemporary staging, director Kim Collier goes a little tech-crazy, but...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 27, 2013 | Review
The Arts Club’s production of Avenue Q is pretty much perfect. No kidding. A distillation of the concerns of Gen X, Avenue Q explores the struggles of a group of young adults who are finding out they’re not as special as they’ve been brought up to...
