by Colin Thomas | Mar 22, 2018 | Review
Nicola Billon’s Butcher exploits real suffering to create gimmicky entertainment. I hated it so much that I wanted to boo. On Christmas Eve, an old guy in a military uniform has been dropped off at a police station. A butcher’s hook was tied around his neck and the...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 8, 2018 | Review
The day after seeing The After After Party, I’m still laughing as I describe it to friends. The laughter is uncontrollable. Like I’m being tickled. By unseen hands. That belong to somebody that I like but can’t identify. If you’re up for an audacious good time, The...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 23, 2018 | Review
It’s fine. It’s okay. It’s kind of charming. But that’s not enough. In Pss Pss, Swiss artists Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari play mute clown characters who meet, struggle for possession of an apple, and, through increasingly challenging acrobatics, end up on a...
by Colin Thomas | Feb 9, 2018 | Review
No Foreigners is extremely stylish. Unfortunately, that style is rarely theatrical. No Foreigners is a kind of fairytale, digitally told. In it, a young Chinese-Canadian man finds out that he can inherit his grandfather’s wealth, but only if he can tell the executor...
by Colin Thomas | Jan 20, 2018 | Review
Reassembled, Slightly Askew provoked one of the most intense theatrical experiences I’ve had: deeply disorienting, often frightening. Was it worth it? Probably. Written and produced by Shannon Yee, Reassembled, Slightly Askew explores Yee’s experience of acquired...
