by Colin Thomas | Nov 3, 2023 | Review
Kerën Burkett and Alisha Davidson deliver solid performances. (Photo: Kimberly Ho) Playwright Trey Anthony’s How Black Mothers Say I Love You is about the experiences of three Black women — four if you count the ghost. More specifically, it’s about immigration. I’m a...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 27, 2023 | Review
Gosh. So many great things. Assembly Hall, the latest creation from choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright Jonathon Young, is so narratively eccentric it will resonant in different ways for every person who sees it. Let me tell you a bit about what it meant to me....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 15, 2023 | Review
Peace Country is a huge accomplishment. I love its urgency, its complexity, its humour — and its weirdness. Its weirdness — well, its eccentricity — lies in the play’s structure. Pedro Chamale’s new script is set in an area also known as Peace River Country, an aspen...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 14, 2023 | Review
There are things I liked in Someone Like You, but so many more that I didn’t that it’s going to take a while to get there. Mostly what bugged me is that I felt like playwright Christine Quintana was cutting my meat for me. So much of her script is predetermined and...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2023 | Review
The thrill is gone. When I first saw Tetsuro Shigematsu’s solo show Empire of the Son, when Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre produced its premiere seven years ago, I was so moved that, two weeks after seeing it, I still couldn’t talk about it without crying. But this...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 30, 2023 | Review
What can I tell you about Fairview? Since Jackie Sibblies Drury’s script is about the distorting power of the white gaze and the nightmarish inescapability of white opinion — and since I’m a white guy — I’m going to opt for not telling you much. The play’s central...
