by Colin Thomas | Sep 12, 2020 | Review
This is the first time I’ve attended a live performance since the beginning of the plague, so I’m going to start off by talking about that. Going in, I was mildly freaked out; I’m 68 and I’m taking immunosuppressant drugs. Because I’m vulnerable, I wore a mask and a...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 8, 2019 | Review
In 2011 in a forest glade somewhere in Wiltshire, England, lives Johnny “Rooster” Byron in a trailer surrounded by trash. A middle-aged waster, he hosts alcohol- and drug-laced parties for the local teenagers. There’s a new housing estate nearby and the town council...
by Colin Thomas | Mar 30, 2019 | Review
I thought it was never going to end. Then, after two hours, the lights finally came up—but it was only intermission. We had another hour and a half to go. Playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica is about the current murky codependence between China and the States. To...
by Colin Thomas | Jun 8, 2018 | Review
If you’re not having a good time onstage, you shouldn’t be there. Everybody in this cast of Nell Gwynn deserves to be onstage: they are having a fucking laugh riot. And their pleasure is infectious: the evening is infused with joy. Playwright Jessica Swale shows us...
