by Colin Thomas | May 24, 2020 | Review
Who wants to be seduced? I’m not talking about hard-wired seduction, the kind that’s all about your junk. I’m talking about the kind that opens your heart to irrational possibilities — like love — the kind that sets you floating in the universe and leaves you feeling...
by Colin Thomas | May 23, 2020 | Review
I was so painfully bored after the first hour of B that I fled to my bed and watched the remaining 45 minutes the next morning. In those 45 minutes, Guillermo Calderón’s script gets a tiny bit better. A tiny bit. In Calderón’s play, which is set in Chile, three...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 26, 2020 | Review
Friends, do yourselves a favour and get tickets for the remaining online performances of Good Things To Do from Rumble Theatre. They’re only five bucks at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rumble-presents-good-things-to-do-tickets-102448897410 There are three...
by Colin Thomas | Apr 1, 2020 | Review
Hi everybody, Glen Cairns, the longtime partner of theatre director and teacher Tom Kerr, wrote the tribute I’m sharing here. Stay well, Colin The fifth of eight children born to Commercial Traveler John Kerr and his wife, Rosina Montgomery Kerr, Tom was born in...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 6, 2020 | Review
Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience is more successful as a political and educational tool than it is as art — and it’s worth seeing. The writing team of Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn has created an insanely ambitious format. In the set-up for...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 5, 2020 | Review
It’s enough to put you off going to the theatre. There’s some good acting in The Wedding Party, but the script is so stupid. In The Wedding Party, playwright Kristen Thomson imagines a wedding reception going wrong. Sherry Boychuk, who comes from a humble family, is...