2009

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.

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg in Goggles

Pi Theatre and Rumble Production’s joint presentation of after the quake is a stunning piece of theatre.

Manami Hara, Leina Dueck and Testsuro Shigematsu are seen after the quake, photograph by Ken Bryant

Hofesh Shechter’s two pieces “Uprising” and “In Your Rooms” collectively crashed over me like a thunderous...

Hofesh Shechter's "Uprising"

I was very fortunate to attend the opening night of Touchtone Theatre’s world premiere Demon Voice.

Stephanie Belding and Kevin K James are wrestling with each other and their demons; photo by Tim Matheson

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

The Winter’s Tale, currently in production at Studio 58, is supposed to be one of Shakespeare’s “problem” plays.

Benjamin Elliot in Studio 58's The Winter's Tale, photo: David Cooper

One Little Goat Theatre Company continues its tradition of contemporary poetic theatre in its most recent project Talking Masks.

Talking Masks (Oedipussy); photo by: Sai Sivanesan

Genus Theatre’s production of The Physicists is a satirical intrigue set in the common room of an opulent insane asylum called La Cerisiers. 

Kathleen Pollard and Uriah Field in Genus Theatre's production of The Physicists

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