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Theatre

Finding pure pleasure at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival

By Colin Thomas and Kathleen Oliver
There are treats aplenty at this year's festival, including a delicious satire of musical theatre, compelling acting in Confessions, and the unmissable sheer energy of Flamenco Flamenco!
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Finding pure pleasure at the Vancouver International Fringe Festival

By Colin Thomas and Kathleen Oliver
There are treats aplenty at this year's festival, including a delicious satire of musical theatre, compelling acting in Confessions, and the unmissable sheer energy of Flamenco Flamenco!
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Vancouver Fringe Festival returns to risk-taking

By Colin Thomas and Kathleen Oliver
It’s no secret that the Fringe circuit has lately lost its edge, with experimentation making way for middle-of-the-road. However, these 14 shows are technically accomplished, and many are prepared to dare.
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Vancouver Fringe Festival returns to risk-taking

By Colin Thomas and Kathleen Oliver
It’s no secret that the Fringe circuit has lately lost its edge, with experimentation making way for middle-of-the-road. However, these 14 shows are technically accomplished, and many are prepared to dare.
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Letters From Lithuania

By Colin Thomas
Bessie Wapp, who conceived and developed Letters From Lithuania before handing it over to playwright Nicola Harwood, based the work on the experiences of distant relatives in her Jewish family.
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The World Goes 'Round

By Colin Thomas
This self-produced mounting of the musical revue The World Goes ’Round is so slick and entertaining it could easily move right onto an Arts Club stage.
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Letters From Lithuania details fascist horror

By Colin Thomas
Theatremaker Bessie Wapp based the new piece on the plight of the branch of her family who had to cope with the horrors of the Second World War in the Baltic state.
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Italian American Reconciliation is an intoxicating dish

By Colin Thomas
John Patrick Shanley’s 1986 script is like a young exuberant lover; it’s a little clumsy and egocentric, but it’s so energetic and eager to please that it’s impossible to resist.
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Grimm Tales outstays its welcome

By Colin Thomas
Although it has arrived in Vancouver laden with awards and praise, this production by a company called Itsazoo is only fitfully successful and at two hours lasts too long.
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Sebastien Archibald makes merry in a political fairy tale

By Colin Thomas
The 25-year-old UVic graduate's irreverent adaptation of the Grimm tales will take pratfalling joy in raising political issues during its roving outdoor performances at Queen Elizabeth Park.
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As You Like It

By Colin Thomas
In this Carousel Theatre’s Teen Shakespeare production, the exuberant appeal of the young performers, who range in age from 13 to 18, is given professional shape by head instructor Jack Paterson.
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Take a dip in Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses

By Colin Thomas
Theatre’s liminality makes the form and subject matter of Metamorphoses perfect for the stage and here Mary Zimmerman retells Ovid’s myths, which she refers to as shared dreams.
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Multiracial Odd Couple mostly hits mark

By Colin Thomas
If you think that you could do a decent job of playing Oscar Madison or Felix Unger in Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, you’re probably wrong. It ain't easy.
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Jesus Christ Superstar falls short of spectacular

By Kathleen Oliver
In this Theatre Under the Stars production, the supporting actors outshine the leads, with Tamara Vishniakoff delivering a sweet-voiced and soothing Mary and Andrew Byerlay putting on a showstopping and confidently camp Herod.
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Effects blunt Titus's tale of bloody revenge

By Colin Thomas
The full impact of Shakespeare's bloody classic, replete with rape, murder, and mutilation, is diminished by being overburdened with theatrical devices, such as an excess of portentous music and an eclectic costume parade.
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Annie Get Your Gun shot through the heart

By Colin Thomas
Director Shel Piercy hasn't done her star, Meghan Anderson, any favours with Theatre Under the Stars production of Annie Get Your Gun by indulging the actor's every impulse towards coarseness.
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Bring on the blood and guts in Titus

By Colin Thomas
In a Titus Andronicus that doesn’t shy away from Shakespeare's original extreme violence, actor Russell Roberts gets to delve into the dark side by using realistic gore, not arty-farty red ribbons.
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Cirque musicians set rhythm for Corteo

By Tony Montague
Cirque du Soleil has made music much more present in its latest production, with a clown-faced percussionist who coaxes two teeterboard acrobats with his drumbeats, and a violinist who duels with a whistler while the cast plays wineglasses and Tibetan bells.
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Spamalot? More like a karaoke Holy Grail

By Colin Thomas
The knights of King Arthur's court take the medieval legend of the Holy Grail to absurd heights in Mike Nichols' Spamalot.
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Magic and music at heart of Meg Roe's Tempest

By Colin Thomas
Meg Roe's made her directorial debut with The Tempest at Bard on the Beach on Wednesday night, and her interpretation was so assured and her production so refreshingly pretty that it was more like a perfect summer shower.
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Nudge, nudge, wink, wink -- welcome to Spamalot

By John Lucas
All hail the Holy Grail: the new stage-musical adaptation of the Monty Python classic maintains the original's deadpan surrealism and sheer absurdity while also sending up musicals.
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Javanese shadow-play star hits local stage

By Alexander Varty
The setting is a fourth-floor walkup just off Main Street’s hipster strip, and outside sirens are blaring; there are no resonant gongs here, no chiming bonangs or mellow slenthems. Yet the feeling inside is convivial, as three gamelan-trained musicians share clove-spiked cigarettes and talk of their plans to bring the ancient gods of Java to the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre on Wednesday and Thursday (July 9 and 10).
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Act 2 brings The Back Kitchen Release Party to life

By Colin Thomas
The Back Kitchen Release Party
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Meg Roe makes directorial debut by tackling tough Tempest

By Colin Thomas
As Prospero is putting down his magical books, Meg Roe is picking hers up.
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King Lear mixes tenderness into the madness

By Colin Thomas
King Lear
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