by Colin Thomas | Feb 8, 2025 | Review
Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett’s Wonderful Joe makes about as much sense as a painting by Marc Chagall — by which I mean it makes so much associative, intuitive, emotional sense. And it’s beautiful to look at as it swirls around its themes of loneliness and inclusion,...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 24, 2024 | Review
East Van Panto: Robin Hood is not the best East Van Panto ever, but it’s still fun and it’s still a win. Jivesh Parasram and Christine Quintana wrote the script, as they did last year. In their story, Robin Hood is a little critter who lives with his band of...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 28, 2024 | Review
Great. I get to be the white guy who says he didn’t much care for Indigenous artist Cliff Cardinal’s solo show As You Like It or The Land Acknowledgement. I went into the evening hoping for challenge and provocation, but I didn’t get either. My expectation and...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 14, 2024 | Review
So sexy. So much fun. For a good time, call Barbu at 604-251-1363. That’s The Cultch’s box office number. Created by Montreal’s Cirque Alfonse, which is a family-and-friends operation, Barbu sets out to recreate the feel of the circuses that toured Québec at the turn...
by Colin Thomas | May 4, 2024 | Review
The actors in this premiere production of playwright Kamila Sediego’s Homecoming are treating the characters — and the project — with a level of respect that’s a pleasure to witness. Sediego’s script is about the effect of emigration on three generations of Filipinas....