by Colin Thomas | Nov 9, 2018 | Review
There seem to be at least a couple of good stories in the source material for Three Winters, but writer and director Amiel Gladstone hasn’t figured out how to tell them. Gladstone based Three Winters on his grandfather’s memories of being a prisoner of war in Stalag...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 8, 2018 | Review
Check out the texture of this piece. (In Vancouver, SmallWaR is being performed in English). There are passages in SmallWaR that are as exquisite as anything I’ve seen. The opening is a stunner. Valentijn Dhaenens, the Belgian artist who created SmallWaR, also...
by Colin Thomas | Nov 1, 2018 | Review
The Believers Are But Brothers is about the internet and it’s like the internet: it’s bursting with information and I’m not sure how to make sense of it, but I find it really fucking stimulating. In The Believers Are But Brothers—the title comes from the Quran—writer...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 31, 2018 | Review
Backbone made me really, really happy in my body. Another way of saying that is that, for about the first ten minutes of the show, I was moaning and gasping and—let’s face it—talking as if I was having sex with the entire company of ten acrobats and two musicians....
by Colin Thomas | Oct 26, 2018 | Review
This script landed on the stage before it was ready. It’s in terrible shape. In The Ones We Leave Behind, playwright Loretta Seto explores abandonment and belonging. On one of her first cases as a public trustee, Abby has to find anybody who might be related to...
