by Colin Thomas | Aug 4, 2021 | Review
The Magic Hour opened me up and rearranged me. It was extraordinary. The Magic Hour offers an immersive experience that audience members go through one at a time — or in pairs if you need to. The idea is that you’re finishing a dog walk and re-entering your home...
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 21, 2020 | Review
It’s a tribute to the power of God’s Lake that, after the applause had died down, the audience sat quietly in the theatre for so long that stage manager Jethelo Espaldon Cabilete felt compelled to tell us that the show was over. We knew that God’s Lake was over, of...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 9, 2019 | Review
One of the sections in Reverberations, an installation/performance piece by Brian Linds, knocked me out. In Reverberations, Linds, who has worked primarily as a sound designer for the past several years, explores his family history through five pieces that are all set...
by Colin Thomas | Dec 7, 2018 | Review
Holiday Baking Time is designed for little kids—I’d say three to six is the core audience—and the only evening shows are on Thursdays, which are billed as “pyjama nights”. So the audience is insanely cute. I particularly liked the little girl in the giraffe onesie who...
