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....
by Colin Thomas | Apr 21, 2024 | Review
Something alchemical is going on here: You used to call me Marie… sustains itself longer than logic tells me it should. The play’s success doesn’t last all the way to the end of its 90 minutes, but there are significant forces at work here. Tai Amy Grauman’s...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 26, 2024 | Review
I have a very strong hunch that, if any other person who was in the audience with me last night had the opportunity to review The Mirror, they’d be giving it a more enthusiastic write-up than I’m about to. When they were all on their feet, clapping wildly, I was in my...
