One more chance to go to the underworld: The Nether (Vancouver Fringe 2016)
Leave a Comment The Nether at the Vancouver Fringe is darkly intriguing and absolutely worth seeing. There’s one performance left: Saturday, September 17, at 6:00 at the Firehall. Make it a sell-out, Vancouver. In Jennifer Haley’s complex script, which is set in the...
“Falling Awake” is one of the best shows at the Vancouver Fringe (2016)
Leave a Comment I’ve written all of the reviews that I get to write for the Georgia Straight, but I saw a show last night that I wish I’d seen earlier and I want you to know about it. Falling Awake is excellent. In this clown show, a woman’s partner is killed by...
Vancouver Fringe tips of the day: Ese Atawao, Marrow (2016)
Leave a Comment In One Good Marriage, Ese Atawo (curled up here next to co-star Dan Willows) delivers a gorgeously subtle performance. There’s a very particular excitement that comes when you discover new talent. In Sean Reycraft’s script One Good Marriage, we meet a...
Invite yourself to The After After Party at the Vancouver Fringe
Leave a Comment Go see this show. The After After Party by Katey Hoffman and Cheyenne Mabberley is one of the funniest things at the Fringe. Teenagers Jules and Fiona are so drunk and stoned that they can’t remember what they did at the pre-party, the party, or the...
Vancouver Fringe picks going into the first weekend (2016)
Leave a Comment So far, I’ve seen 12 shows that are playing the Vancouver Fringe Festival. (I saw nine of them in Victoria.) The leader of the pack is The Ballad of Frank Allen, a hilarious buddy comedy about a guy who is accidentally miniaturized and takes up...
Q2Q queers the coast
Leave a Comment For months, the frank theatre company and SFU have been planning a queer theatre conference called Q2Q: A Symposium on Queer Theatre and Performance in Canada. Check out the line-up. It’s phenomenal. The conference, which runs at SFU Woodwards’...
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...
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