Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a must-see performance June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Brianna Bock A story of love, struggle, heartache, hurt, what it means to be in a relationship, and moving forward despite it all, all told on the evening of a punk rock
Happy Days: the theatre of the absurd May 19, 2019May 20, 2019 Brianna Bock The play Happy Days, written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, is best known for a style called ‘Theatre of the Absurd’. Like in his other masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Beckett
Review: ‘Good Morning, Viet Mom!’ March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Emma Bishop In Good Morning, Viet Mom!, Franco Nguyen tells a story of growing up as the son of Vietnamese immigrant parents in a moving and hilarious show with themes of family,
Mike Delamont confronts difficult childhood in ‘Mama’s Boy’ March 22, 2019March 22, 2019 Glenn Howard On Mar. 8, Mama’s Boy opened the 10th annual Spark Festival at the Belfry Theatre. Mike Delamont used every part of his towering six-foot-six frame to deliver a moving, intimate
The Phoenix Theatre’s ‘7 Stories’ held over to March 24 (for good reason) March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 Brianna Bock As the sun starts to go down, the 100-year old Lillian (Rahat Saini) admires the beautiful evening, while The Man (Lyle Hendriks) is lost in his own troubling thoughts. Morris Panych’s existential...
Kaleidoscope Theatre’s play ‘The Giver’ showing this weekend February 22, 2019March 18, 2019 Anna Dodd While Victoria's Kaleidoscope Theatre calls itself a "theatre for young people," adults and children alike will be mesmerized and haunted by its most recent production of the dystopian play, The...
RENT is one-hundred-and-fifty-minutes of expert performances November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 Anna Dodd (And moments so dear) Ooo-one huuu-uun-dred and fifty minutes / Ooo-one hundred and fifty moments so dear. The Victoria Operatic Society's (VOS) one-hundred-and-fifty-minute-long production of RENT was definitely dear, as well...
A grand spectacle November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 Adam Bach The Phoenix Theatre's production of The Drowsy Chaperone is anything but sleepy The Phoenix Theatre’s Production of The Drowsy Chaperone is a grand spectacle done through the parody of classical musical tropes....
The Fitting Room takes home gold at this year’s Pick of the Fringe September 21, 2018September 19, 2018 Juliana Rupchan The 2018 Fringe Festival results are in, and UVic’s theatrical talents are award-winning. The Fitting Room, put on by RoseMarie Productions — a team made up mostly of UVic grads...
Fringe 2018: Learning to love “To Hug” September 1, 2018September 1, 2018 Brianna Bock Pepper spray, pink dresses, and airports — all you need, really Like many great stories, Jon Bennett: How I Learned to Hug begins in an airport. In the play, Bennett manages to make...
