For fun, visit Nell Gwynn

by | Jun 8, 2018 | Review

If you’re not having a good time onstage, you shouldn’t be there. Everybody in this cast of Nell Gwynn deserves to be onstage: they are having a fucking laugh riot. And their pleasure is infectious: the evening is infused with joy. Playwright Jessica Swale shows us...

C’mon, Angie!: ambition—and surprising humour

by | Jun 2, 2018 | Review

There’s no way to write this review that is both comfortable and honest. In C’mon, Angie!, Reed and Angie have just had a one-night stand and we witness the fraught morning after—well, the fraught pre-dawn. In two significant ways, Reed failed to get clear consent...

40 Days and 40 Nights: It’s personal

by | Jun 1, 2018 | Review

I attended 40 Days and 40 Nights last night. It’s an exploration of love from theatre artists Kim Collier and Daniel Brooks, who are romantic partners. I was going to review it but, after the show, Kim asked me not to, saying that 40 Days is intended as a gift....

Macbeth Muet: Eggs are harmed

by | May 31, 2018 | Review

Bloody. Good. In Macbeth Muet, two actors from the Montreal company La Fille du Laitier tell the story of Macbethin about 45 minutes. Although they don’t do it wordlessly, as advertised, they do it without speaking. (At various points, the performers hold up cards,...

The Only Good Indian wanders (in this incarnation)

by | May 25, 2018 | Review

You know that expression about shooting fish in a barrel? Reviewing The Only Good Indian is like trying to shoot a fish in the ocean from an airplane. At least in the performance I witnessed, The Only Good Indian is hard to get a bead on. Jivesh Parasram, Tom Arthur...