Go ahead: satisfy your Kuriosity
It’s worth it. Like a great pair of shoes or an indulgent vacation, a great night out is worth a splurge. And Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities is a great night out. The world of this Cirque du Soleil production, which premiered in 2014, is steam-punk: it’s fascinated...
VANCOUVER GREENROOM 12: Hearing voices
SOL TRAIN The core goal of the Sol Project is to strengthen the presence of Latinx playwrights off-Broadway and in regional theatres in the US. Although it only launched last May, the Sol Project has already been incredibly successful. The collective enterprise plans...
VIVA: artistic adventure in Las Vegas
There’s a lot of powerful writing in Scott Button’s new play VIVA. That’s the most important thing to know. There are also lapses of taste, which undermine the strengths. In VIVA, Button overlaps two narratives. At the outset, Alice and Graeme, who don’t know one...
Thanks for Giving: thanks for the ambition
It’s as if playwright Kevin Loring has tried to cram half a dozen Greek tragedies—plus a couple of episodes of The Honeymooners—into one evening. His new play, Thanks for Giving, is inspiringly ambitious, often funny, sometimes beautiful, and structurally scattershot....
VANCOUVER GREENROOM 11: We need to talk
Theatre is community WE NEED TO TALK I love you, I really do. All of you who read Vancouver Greenroom are important to me. But…our relationship has to change. And I want us to grow together, not apart. Starting in November, this blog feature, Vancouver Greenroom,...
VANCOUVER GREENROOM 10: Sore throat
Theatre is community. SORE THROAT Geez, my throat hurts. The cheering for Vancouver theatre artists just doesn’t stop these days. Marcus Youssef, who is nominated for the Simonivitch Prize, just won the Mayor’s Arts Award for theatre, and Conor Wylie got the nod as...
Click on TJ Dawe and Itai Erdal’s Hyperlink
Hyperlink is terrific, stylin’ entertainment. It’s about social media. And, in crucial ways, it’s the opposite of social media. During the show, we’re all in the same space at the same time, for instance. Real human beings, live flesh: how refreshing! Nobody is...
1 Hour Photo is underdeveloped
There are exquisite elements in 1 Hour Photo. There are also significant problems with the storytelling. For almost its entire length, 1 Hour Photo doesn’t seem to know what it’s about. Writer Tetsuro Shigematsu, who performs the show with musician Steve Charles,...
The Goblin Market: “She suck’d until her lips were sore.”
Make no mistake: Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, which was published in 1862 and which inspired this circus performance, is about sex. At twilight, sisters Laura and Lizzie are tempted by goblin men, who offer to sell them fruit. At first, Laura demurs: “We...
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