Reviews From Vancouver

Odysseus Chaoticus indeed. This piece is visually compelling, innovative, surprising, intimate, vulnerable, riotous, bawdy, eloquent and well executed to boot! A liberal dose of nourishing comedy for us heroes of the day-to-day.

Felix Culpa has done an admirable job with a challenging script.  Playwright Tom Cone's latest opus, Donald and Lenore, is a surreal journey with two characters going nowhere in a made-up paradise of sorts.  Set in a Polynesian-inspired Tiki Room underneath an unnamed...

Strange to say, but the more dance I see, the more I like dance that focuses less on performance and more on transcendence. I suppose I wouldn’t like to see, for example, a Shamanistic ritual onstage at the Playhouse Theatre, where I’d paid a substantial sum for my ticket unless it...

Dark Matters is the latest offering by choreographer Crystal Pite, the founder of Kidd Pivot.  Influenced by Kabuki and Butoh puppet theatre, Dark Matters is a two part performance that deconstructs it's own dramatic premise, immersing the audience in meditations on...