by Colin Thomas | Nov 26, 2020 | Review
Christmas is coming, we’re in the middle of a pandemic, theatres in BC have been hit especially hard, and I don’t want to look like an asshole. But, if I’m going to be honest, there’s no way to avoid saying this: The Twelve Dates of Christmas is a waste of time. The...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 2, 2020 | Review
Are you looking for a really good reason to go back to the theatre? Here you go: the Arts Club’s production of Nilaja Sun’s No Child… will remind you what it’s all about. In the story, an actor/teacher named Miss Sun arrives at the impoverished Malcolm X High School...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 13, 2020 | Review
A cipher can be a code. It can also be a zero. Cipher is a play about a code — and a play that adds up to very little. In Cipher, playwrights Ellen Close and Braden Griffiths invent a 63-year-old cold case. In that fictional mystery, a man’s body is found on the beach...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 30, 2020 | Review
There’s something sublime about farce when it’s well done and this Arts Club production of Noises Off is very well done. In Michael Frayn’s 1982 farce, a hapless company of English actors rehearses and then performs … a farce. In Nothing On, the...
