by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2022 | Review
At first, I was not in the groove of Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer — and I was content to think, “Okay, maybe this wasn’t written for me.” Other people were laughing up a storm, including the row of Indigenous folks in front of me — so maybe I just wasn’t...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 1, 2022 | Review
Written by married couple Omari Newton and Amy Lee Lavoie, Redbone Coonhound isn’t always subtle or precisely focused, but it’s got force! It’s about Michael, who’s married to Marissa. As in the Newton/Lavoie marriage, he’s Black, she’s white, and they live in...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 11, 2022 | Review
What world are we in? The Cull, which was written by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith, and which is being presented as an audio play, starts off as a bougie sitcom. Nicole and her husband Paul are hosting a dinner party — in their 12,000-square-foot house — to...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 10, 2022 | Review
I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made me is full of pleasing textures but, unfortunately, little else. Catherine Hernandez wrote the script that director Fay Nass has adapted for the frank theatre into a 53-minute audio play with music. It’s about a woman who leaves an...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 11, 2021 | Review
It always amazes me when a show manages to save itself in Act 2. This production of Snowflake does that — splendidly. In playwright Mike Bartlett’s Snowflake, the first act is a monologue delivered by a guy named Andy. As he waits in a church hall in his hometown of...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 10, 2021 | Review
If you listen to the first two lines of The Power of the Dog, you will know exactly where this movie is going, so do yourself a favour: listen and save yourself from two (mostly) tedious hours. I say “mostly” because, thanks to cinematographer Ari Wegner, The Power of...
