by Colin Thomas | Oct 15, 2023 | Review
Peace Country is a huge accomplishment. I love its urgency, its complexity, its humour — and its weirdness. Its weirdness — well, its eccentricity — lies in the play’s structure. Pedro Chamale’s new script is set in an area also known as Peace River Country, an aspen...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 14, 2023 | Review
There are things I liked in Someone Like You, but so many more that I didn’t that it’s going to take a while to get there. Mostly what bugged me is that I felt like playwright Christine Quintana was cutting my meat for me. So much of her script is predetermined and...
by Colin Thomas | Oct 1, 2023 | Review
The thrill is gone. When I first saw Tetsuro Shigematsu’s solo show Empire of the Son, when Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre produced its premiere seven years ago, I was so moved that, two weeks after seeing it, I still couldn’t talk about it without crying. But this...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 30, 2023 | Review
What can I tell you about Fairview? Since Jackie Sibblies Drury’s script is about the distorting power of the white gaze and the nightmarish inescapability of white opinion — and since I’m a white guy — I’m going to opt for not telling you much. The play’s central...
by Colin Thomas | Sep 24, 2023 | Review
The script is so bad. There are some okay elements in this production, but … have I mentioned how bad the script is? In The Last Wife, playwright Kate Hennig imagines the relationship between Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, the only spouse who outlived...
