At the beginning of after homelessness, David Diamond, Artistic Director of Headlines Theatre, tells us to view the piece with an open heart, and I did just that. Unfortunately, by the end of the night, the strain made me in danger of suffering an aneurism.
I remember a review for an REM album – I think it might have been for New Adventures in Hi-Fi – where the reviewer started his critique with the following: “You already know whether you’ll like this album or not”.
Check out the frocks! Monique Lund and Sara-Jeanne Hosie wearing jaw-droppers in White Christmas. Photo by David Cooper.
Goggles is a powerful combination of drama and dance. Performed and created by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, she skillfully displays not only her dance training, but also her wider expressive physical vocabulary, her sense of comic timing, and her ability to weave these together with dialogue.
The Laramie Project creatd by Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project, presented by Theatre at UBC at the Fredric Wood Theatre, is in need of a good editor.
Tich Wilson in The Laramie Project; Photo Credit: Tim Matheson
When I sat down in the Rio Theatre to watch LiveStage Production of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, I was flooded with memories of my childhood: sitting alone in my bedroom having my adolescent mind blown by the dreamscapes of Pink Floyd.
Messing with Mike's Mind is Pink Floyd's The Wall at the Rio; photo credit: VooDoo Bill Kustom Photography
