by Colin Thomas | Nov 15, 2018 | Review
God save good art from simplistic politics. Donna Spencer has adapted Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, which premiered in 1882, to create The Enemy—and by “adapted” I mean “shrunk”. In Ibsen’s story, Dr. Stockmann, the medical officer for a new spa in southern...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 3, 2018 | Review
For a script with such an earthy title, Shit is oddly abstract. In Shit, Australian playwright Patricia Cornelius presents us with three incarcerated women. Billy, Bob, and Sam have all grown up in foster care and they have all been brutalized sexually, emotionally,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 19, 2017 | Review
This is a guest review from Deneh’Cho Thompson. The Firehall Arts Centre first brought Drew Hayden Taylor’s Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth to Vancouver in 1997, and now it’s back. Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth follows a pair of sisters as they...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 23, 2017 | Review
The storytelling in Happy Place could be more focused and compelling, but some of the play’s content pierces to the heart of the current cultural moment and the cast is stellar. In Happy Place, playwright Pamela Mala Sinha takes us to an upscale inpatient treatment...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 20, 2016 | Review
I’m finding it impossible not to damn Mamahood with faint praise. There’s nothing really wrong with this show, but there’s nothing arrestingly right about it either. In her solo work, Mamahood: turn and face the strange, writer and performer Nicolle Nattrass tells us...
