The best of Bard on the Beach
Leave a Comment The question I get asked most at this time of year is, “What should I see at Bard on the Beach”? Quick answer: Pericles and Merry Wives. If you can only see one show, I’d go for Pericles. The play is hardly ever produced—and you’re never going to see...
Movements No. 1&2: the show doesn’t work, but the talent is exciting
Leave a Comment I didn’t like it, but I’m glad I went. Playwright James Gordon King and the rest of the artistic team on Movements No. 1&2are so talented and ambitious that there was something lovely about watching this piece, even though the script didn’t work...
Just in case you were taking the Jessies too seriously…
Leave a Comment Just in case you’ve been taking last week’s Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards too seriously, consider this: in terms of trophies, one of the best shows of this or any other season was shut out. Tetsuro Shigematsu’s Empire of the Sonwent into the evening...
The Flick: everyday transcendence
Look! Look! Look how beautiful and complex human beings are! In Annie Baker’s gorgeous, Pulitzer Prize-winning script The Flick, three employees of a movie theatre hang around, clean up, and talk. It’s slow and it’s minimalist—it goes on for three hours, including...
WIPE-OUT!
In August of 2017, I crashed my website because sometimes I am the opposite of a genius. Thanks to the genius of Giorgio at Web Hosting Canada, I got my site back and I have been able to restore most of my content. Unfortunately, the content from May and June 2016...
Increasing the diversity of voices in theatre criticism
Leave a Comment Are you a person of colour who would like to develop their chops as a theatre critic or maybe just reach a wider audience? In the interests of creating more diversity in Vancouver’s community of theatre critics, I’d like to offer my...
Viva rEvolver!
Leave a Comment While many larger companies routinely fail to represent the diverse cultural make-up of this city, the rEvolver Festival is doing a bang-up job of it. Of the twelve ticketed shows that will be on view at the Cultch May 11 to 22, seven have been created...
Congrats on your nomination, Aaron Cully Drake!
Leave a Comment Aaron Drake’s new novel is a thing of beauty. A book that I edited has been nominated for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award! Hooray for author Aaron Cully Drake! Aaron’s book, Do You Think This is Strange?, is narrated by an 18-year-old autistic boy...
Thank you, Crystal Verge
Leave a Comment I’m feeling a bit like Paul on the road to Damascus. I think I might be having a conversion experience. I spent all day yesterday (Saturday) writing and rewriting my response to—well, to the shit storm. At times, that response was very lengthy. I spoke...
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