by Colin Thomas | Aug 6, 2021 | Review
Maybe the best way to see these two short scripts is as seedlings. In Gather: Stories in Nature, Shayna Jones and Cameron Peal both perform solo plays they’ve written about their relationships to the earth. In a (mostly) productive decision, their work is being...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 4, 2021 | Review
The Magic Hour opened me up and rearranged me. It was extraordinary. The Magic Hour offers an immersive experience that audience members go through one at a time — or in pairs if you need to. The idea is that you’re finishing a dog walk and re-entering your home...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 30, 2021 | Review
I cried with other people and laughed with them. We shared the space with a skilled and responsive performer. Together, we all slipped into the land of deliberate artifice and came out the other side with our hearts bigger and, in my case at least, more relaxed. Last...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 15, 2021 | Review
This is what performance — what gathering — can be. Last Thursday, I attended and participated in Sii ye’yu (friends, relatives), an event created by Mortal Coil (a theatre company headed by settler artists) and Tsatsu Stalqayu (an Indigenous family group also known...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 20, 2021 | Review
The most interesting thing about watching New-Fangled Fibs: Tall Tales by Paul Strickland is trying to figure out why it doesn’t work. It’s not like Strickland, who specializes in tall tales, isn’t a talented guy. His show, Ain’t True and Uncle False, which I saw at...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 15, 2021 | Review
Let’s talk about sex. That’s what Cock is all about — well sex, love, and identity. In Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award-winning script from 2009, John has left his male lover M when he meets W and has sex with a woman for the first time. He thinks W’s vagina is “amazing”...
