by Colin Thomas | Jan 27, 2019 | Review
Guest review by David Johnston Chris Lam and Tariq Leslie work hard but drop the ball in A Prayer for Owen Meany. (Photo by Zemekiss Photography) It was a bad sign when, after sitting through A Prayer For Owen Meany’s fourteen-hour runtime, my first reaction was...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 29, 2018 | Review
A crime thriller, Dark Road feels much more suited to television than the stage. And, if it were on television, I’d turn it off. (The production is strong, but that’s not my point.) In Dark Road, Isobel McArthur, the first female Chief Constable in Scotland, is about...
by Colin Thomas | Jul 28, 2018 | Review
It’s a nasty play well performed. In Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, it’s the early 90s and Maureen is caring for her mother Mag in the claustrophobic Irish village of the title. The two women hate each other. Forty-year-old Maureen is a virgin who has...
