by Colin Thomas | Jun 6, 2021 | Review
Skip to the epilogue: the last five minutes of this production are by far the best. There are two earlier sections. Each unit is distinct. In Part 1, we witness a training session in which a sales manager named Niall coaches three pharmaceutical reps on how to make a...
by Colin Thomas | May 21, 2021 | Review
Politically, Christine Quintana’s new audio play Someone Like You is busy: it takes on fat phobia, racism, misogyny, and the capitalist commodification of human longing. That’s a worthy line-up of targets. Too worthy, as it turns out. Thematically, Someone Like You...
by Colin Thomas | May 15, 2021 | Review
There’s a lot going on here — and a good deal of it is engaging. Playwright Derek Chan’s yellow objects is about Hong Kong’s democracy movement, which was crushed in 2020 — although its spirit lives on. Artistically, yellow objects is adventuresome. Ten audience...
by Colin Thomas | May 8, 2021 | Review
Theatre for grown-ups. I’m grateful. This version of The Boy in the Moon is playwright Emil Sher’s adaptation of Ian Brown’s memoir about raising Walker, his severely disabled son, with his wife Johanna Schneller. It’s tough. Describing Walker at birth, the character...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2021 | Review
Strong acting. Taut dialogue. Handsome set. But there’s no thematic revelation. In Hannah Moscovitch’s Post-Democracy — which is receiving its world premiere at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange — a Chief Operating Officer named Lee is trying to convince his boss,...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 15, 2021 | Review
All alone in my office, I was laughing out loud and clapping my hands. Bad Hat Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland is streaming online, but it does what theatre does best: it activates the concrete imagination. Without resorting to illusion, it uses sounds, bodies, and...
