by Jakelene Plan | Aug 31, 2018 | Culture, Theatre
Your last chance saloon picks for what to watch this weekend Kitt & Jane: An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future Kitt & Jane return to the Victoria Fringe in An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future, and this...
by Jakelene Plan | Jun 5, 2018 | Culture, Literature
Andrew MacLeod’s “All Together Healthy” offers accessible criticisms for an all-too-often inaccessible health care system The joke goes like this: the premise of Breaking Bad would never work in Canada. That’s funny, right? It’s because we have publicly subsidized...
by Jakelene Plan | Mar 22, 2018 | Culture, Theatre
Lights, music, and acting make for thrilling experience It’s doubtful that any audience member has gotten whiplash in a theatre, but the audience at the opening night of The Comedy of Errors must have come close. The stage is active from the moment the audience finds...
by Jakelene Plan | Feb 23, 2018 | Culture, Theatre
Pulitzer Prize–winning play gives Phoenix actors chance to spread their wings Crimes of the Heart is the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by acclaimed playwright Beth Henley, which was later adapted into an Oscar-nominated film of the same name. Set in the 1970s in...
by Jakelene Plan | Nov 15, 2017 | Culture, Theatre
Colourful acting can’t compensate for grey script The audience stares at the red curtain for several long minutes waiting for the lights to rise, the sound to fade, and the actors to appear. There’s a low muttering from the other patrons, a nervous laugh at the...