The staging of Cymbeline at this year’s Bard on the Beach squares out the themes of “daughters and redemption”. While A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cymbeline center around defiant daughters, » Read More
Articles by Cora Li
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July 7, 2014
Pulitzer finalist playwright Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries peers into the lives of two people bonded together by a reciprocal need for unnecessary misery. An undercurrent of romance runs through their » Read More
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May 7, 2014
No bells, no whistles, fireworks or special-effects; no farcical plot or outrageous slapstick: how can a play about two people having a “chummy” conversation over a few drinks possibly captivate » Read More
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May 5, 2014
Axis Theatre, renowned for the acclaimed Number 14, premiered its first new creation for adult audiences in over a decade, RIP! A Winkle in Time. Conceptualized by playwright KC Brown, the » Read More
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United Players Take on an Abridged Version of Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop at Jericho Arts Centre
April 1, 2014
The Old Curiosity Shop was originally published by Dickens as a weekly serial in 73 installments before it was compiled into a best-selling novel. Eager readers circa 1840 languished in anticipation » Read More
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February 26, 2014
Collaboratively created by Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson, Hirsch, part of this year’s Chutzpah! Festival, celebrates and deconstructs the life of Canadian theatre icon, John Hirsch. Before seeing this play, » Read More
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February 25, 2014
Chutzpah! Festival, Vancouver’s multi-disciplinary performing arts extravaganza, is back in full swing for its 14th year. For modern English speakers, the term “chutzpah” carries a meaning synonymous to “courage” or » Read More
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January 27, 2014
Last weekend, I attended the United Players of Vancouver’s take on the The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall’s thought-provoking, historical play about the barrier transcendence of art on ordinary lives. The » Read More
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January 21, 2014
The Honest Fishmongers’ spirited adaptation of Measure for Measure demonstrates that the themes of morality, sex, power, and justice that plagued Shakespeare’s era have yet to be resolved in our » Read More
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December 13, 2013
The 170th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale about a mean-spirited, old miser is played out in the Downtown Eastside with a contemporary, local flavour. Bah! Humbug!, an annual » Read More