by Colin Thomas | Mar 1, 2020 | Review
My date for The House at Pooh Corner was a four-year-old whose primary language is Turkish. Just before I picked Eren up, along with his dad, he’d had a meltdown. And, despite these challenges he liked the show, which makes my review more or less irrelevant, but I...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 15, 2020 | Review
There’s nothing wrong with Beep. Designed by Australia’s Windmill Theatre for kids who are two to seven years old, it’s a simple story — told with puppets — about an outsider who is welcomed into village life. A furry little guy named Mort, who looks a lot like a...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 1, 2019 | Review
Peter Pan is not the most progressive story in the world. Even in this adaptation, which has excised Tiger Lily along with all of the other Indians, reactionary gender norms haunt the tale like the ghosts of every frickin’ Christmas past. Through Wendy, girls are...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 23, 2017 | Review
During the holiday season, adults are eager to take the kids in their lives to the theatre. That lovely human impulse should be rewarded with first-rate art. Unfortunately, Carousel Theatre for Young People’s production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is only...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 29, 2016 | Review
Leave a Comment Yesterday, I took my six-year-old neighbour, Abraham, to see Carousel Theatre’s Go, Dog. Go! It was the first time that Abraham had ever seen a play. The script is very simple. Based on P.D. Eastman’s book, it’s a lot like the old Dick and...
