by Colin Thomas | Jan 20, 2023 | Review
Considering the emotional nature of the material — the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II and the abuse of prisoners of war in Japanese prison camps — Forgiveness falls surprisingly flat. Playwright Hiro Kanagawa’s stage adaptation is drawn from Mark...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 11, 2022 | Review
What world are we in? The Cull, which was written by Michele Riml and Michael St. John Smith, and which is being presented as an audio play, starts off as a bougie sitcom. Nicole and her husband Paul are hosting a dinner party — in their 12,000-square-foot house — to...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 29, 2021 | Review
Act 1 is weird. Technically, it’s slick, but it’s so aggressively entertaining and relentlessly uplifting that, watching it, I started to feel like I was on a ride in Disneyland — or maybe Dollywood. Are those real people on the stage or are they robots? In Charles...
by Colin Thomas | Aug 18, 2021 | Review
When does a pile have no depth? When it’s a pile of clichés. I can understand why programming Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story might have looked like a good idea. This solo musical is based on the real-life experience of Maurice Ruddick, a Black Canadian...
by Colin Thomas | May 21, 2021 | Review
Politically, Christine Quintana’s new audio play Someone Like You is busy: it takes on fat phobia, racism, misogyny, and the capitalist commodification of human longing. That’s a worthy line-up of targets. Too worthy, as it turns out. Thematically, Someone Like You...
