by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
I cried three times watching Josephine. The first was because I’m so grateful when I get to see the real thing: Tymisha Harris is a star. Harris plays Josephine Baker in this solo show, which the company describes as “a burlesque cabaret dream play”. Baker was the...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
Yes! This is how you tell a story. It starts with a wedding and a fainting bride. In her swoon — with the help of a chorus called the Grimm Sisters — the bride has the courage to confront her repressed memories. In that backstory, the bride is sixteen and a poor...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
I’m a fan of eccentricity but a show in which virtually all the performer offers is his own zaniness is kind of like a meal in which the sole ingredient is … I don’t know … marshmallows. In Sam Kruger’s monologue, he plays a space alien who comes to Earth because he’s...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
Tim Motley isn’t reinventing magic with Crazy for Dick Tricks, but he is practising it with a lot of charm. Some of the formats are familiar: a series of “failed” attempts at mindreading come together in a big finish, for instance. There are too many magic scarves and...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
Solo performer Carlyn Rhamey has charm to burn: she engages easily and confidently with her audience, inviting everybody in and capitalising on the liveness of the event. But, in Scaredy Cat, most of the stories that she tells about her own fearfulness aren’t as...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 4, 2019 | Review
Writer and solo performer Nyla Carpentier is charming: playful, friendly, and relaxed. And she can dance. In Dissection of a Indian Aboriginal First Nation Full-Blood Status Non-Status Halfbreed Métis Rez Urban Mixed Heritage Woman, Carpentier explores her French,...
