by Colin Thomas | Mar 21, 2021 | Review
Go. But take earplugs. *** I was happy for hours after seeing Imagine Van Gogh. To experience the piece, you enter a huge room — in Vancouver, it’s at the Convention Centre — in which the towering walls and, somehow it seems, the floor, are rear-projection surfaces....
by Colin Thomas | Mar 19, 2021 | Review
Oh sweet, sweet sexiness! There’s darkness in this pandemic-themed, pandemic-era production from the circus collective Les 7 Doigts (The 7 Fingers) but, for me, the overriding experience is about the spectacular joys of embodiment and connection. Through The Cultch,...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 15, 2021 | Review
I got to talk to a charming actor from Paris. Considering we were complete strangers when we started, our conversation was surprisingly easy and intimate. And, at the end of it, Johanna White performed a poem for me based on her assessment of my needs. The experience...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 15, 2021 | Review
Early on, the speakers in An Acorn say, “It could be that we dreamed this/It could be that we desired this/It could be that we have no idea who we are.” It doesn’t take long to figure out that they’re talking about environmental collapse: “I want to get used to the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 13, 2021 | Review
Why? Moby Dick in the Dark, the latest production from Theatre in the Dark, is an audio adaptation of Herman Melville’s enormous novel, Moby-Dick: or, the White Whale. Listening to the audiobook takes 24 hours. This audio play lasts a mere hour and 40 minutes,...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2021 | Review
I liked it best when I was the most confused. The three-episode video series K Body and Mind, which was written and directed by Conor Wylie, has a fantastic set-up and an extraordinarily stylish mode of delivery. The story takes place sometime in the twenty-first...
