by Holly Lam | Sep 24, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
What better way to celebrate a birthday than with corruption, misogyny, and betrayal? It’s the Belfry Theatre’s 40th anniversary season, and the first show on the program is Speed-the-Plow, by famed American playwright David Mamet. I attended on opening night, Sept....
by Holly Lam | Sep 2, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
“Who would you bring to the end of the world?” and “What’s with the grapefruits?” aren’t questions you’d normally hear together, or questions you’d hear at all. But Markus Spodzieja and Jenson Kerr are hoping they’re the kind of questions...
by Holly Lam | Sep 2, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
The Martlet recently spoke with Two’s Kat Taddei and Colette Habel ahead of the show’s premiere. You can read it here. This review does contain some spoilers. As I previously wrote in my preview for Two, a play created by a myriad of students from UVic...
by Holly Lam | Aug 24, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
At this year’s Victoria Fringe Festival, two shows called Two will take the stage. The humour of this coincidence isn’t lost on Colette Habel and Kat Taddei, respectively the director and writer of one of the Twos. If it sounds confusing, Habel and Taddei aren’t...
by Holly Lam | Jul 27, 2015 | Culture, Theatre
The poster for OUTstages draws the eye with a gorgeous headshot of a drag queen in pink lipstick and pearls. I was intrigued by the festival’s tagline, “Victoria’s first queer theatre festival,” because the series of shows is just that — the first of its kind....