by Holly Lam | Jun 8, 2017 | Culture, Theatre
Before this year’s UNO Fest, I’d never felt the need to do stretches — like the kind I’d do to cool down from a good jog — after seeing a play. UNO Fest is Intrepid Theatre’s annual festival of solo shows — launched 20 years ago, it is the longest-running festival of...
by Holly Lam | May 24, 2017 | Culture, Theatre
You might wonder what writing and theatre students do after they attend UVic. It’s a fair question, and one that many students themselves grapple with. For a group of recent grads (together with some students still at UVic), the answer was to start their own company....
by Holly Lam | Sep 1, 2016 | Culture, Theatre
This is a review of Art of the Eight Limbs. Check out our preview, published Aug. 23, for more on the play’s production. Art of the Eight Limbs, part of the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, opened at the Roxy Theatre on Friday to an enthusiastic audience. As...
by Holly Lam | Aug 25, 2016 | Culture, Theatre
What do the lives of children’s puppeteers look like when they step off stage? It’s a question Toronto-based puppeteers and performers Kira Hall and Adam Francis Proulx examine in Does Not Play Well With Others, which opens tonight at the Victoria Fringe Theatre...
by Holly Lam | Aug 23, 2016 | Culture, Theatre
“Crustaceous but vulnerable” is how Chase Hiebert describes a character in Art of the Eight Limbs, a play he is directing for the Victoria Fringe Festival, which kicks off this weekend. Art of the Eight Limbs, a monologue play written by local playwright and UVic...