by Colin Thomas | Feb 11, 2021 | Review
I’m glad I stuck around for the last two episodes of the three-part audio series Rishi & d Douen; they’re so much better than Episode 1. The story is about a nine-year-old named Rishi, who uses they/them pronouns according to Carousel’s press material. Like their...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 11, 2021 | Review
Bronwyn Carradine is a recent alumnus of the Arts Club’s Emerging Playwrights’ Unit. That means she’s veryfreshly baked, but she’s already demonstrating considerable control of craft in her new audio play Unexpecting. Carradine’s story is about lesbian couple Annie...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 24, 2021 | Review
Watching She Sells Sea Shells is like watching somebody you like dating the wrong guy: admirable artists have worked very hard and very skilfully on this production, but Helen Eastman’s script isn’t worthy of their talents and attention. I’m going to chew on the...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 23, 2021 | Review
John Millard’s music for The Cave is glorious. And who couldn’t use some gloriousness these days? The Cave is a musical cabaret with characters and a narrative. Pursued by fire, the animals of the forest are running for their lives. They take refuge in Bear’s cave,...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 20, 2020 | Review
The whole is less than the sum of its parts, but some of those parts are excellent. This year’s (online) East Van Panto is a collection of greatest musical hits from the last seven years of The Cultch and Theatre Replacement’s pantos. Writer Mark Chavez strings the...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 17, 2020 | Review
A lot of the work in Be-Longing is skilled. And, although not everything in the piece succeeds for me, there’s an underlying integrity to it that makes several passages compelling. Created by Fay Nass, Meghna Halder, and Sammy Chien, Be-Longing is about the double...
