Available online from Studio 58 until December 6, 2020
This Studio 58 group of young adults throws themselves into Theatre: The Play with gusto and I liked the sort of radio play/stage play hybrid with sound effects being made by the performers in full view: the sound of a helicopter, a ski doo racing across Antarctica, for example.
Artwork by Emily Cooper
Streaming online until November 29, 2020
Catalina La O Présenta: Ahora Conmigo is a 53-minute online, live theatre/video hybrid co-written by Jenny Larson and khattieQ, performed by khattieQ. Winner of the 2020 Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize, Catalina La O is presented jointly by Jk Jk and Neworld Theatre.
Poster by Pomona Lake
Livestreamed from the Cultch until November 22, 2020
Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata ran on the Arts Club Revue Stage back in 2012 to rave reviews so it’s about time someone remounted it, albeit now titled in lower case letters.
Chirag Naik in do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata
Jericho Arts Centre and online until December 6, 2020
I like this play and this production a lot. Stylish and thought-provoking, it reminded me of Peggy Lee singing, Is That All There Is? as well as Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Tracy Jennissen in The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye). Costume design: Catherine E. Carr
Credit: Nancy Caldwell
Arts Club Granville Island Stage until December 6, 2020
McNee’s is a virtuosic performance, not to be missed. Every gesture, every word opens our hearts to born-in-a-bathtub Felix.
Andrew McNee as Felix in BUFFOON. Credit: Moonrider Productions
Live-streamed until November 21, 2020
Like Mary Shelley’s 1818 Frankenstein, H.G. Well’s 1898 The War of the World’s just keeps spawning revivals and adaptations.
Online from Studio 58 until October 17, 2020
Studio 58 boldly steps up to the plate with its first-ever live-streamed performance with The Doll’s House Project; this online presentation is available until October 17 and its free!
Matheus Severo and Sabrina Banks in The Doll’s House Project. Credit: Amir Tabatabei
Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre to November 8, 2020
One-person shows are great vehicles for performers and Celia Aloma does No Child . . . proud. Alternating performances with Ali Watson, Aloma completely embraces playwright Nilaja Sun’s sixteen characters over the course of a little more than an hour, sans intermission.
Celia Aloma in No Child. . . Credit: Moonrider Productions
At Jericho Arts Centre (and online) until October 4, 2020
A Hundred Words for Snow is a sweet coming of age story told directly to the audience by actor Hana Joi. Playwright Tatty Hennessy packs the script with lots of historical detail about various white male explorers who died trying to make the journey to the North Pole in the past, and bone-chilling descriptions of ice, snow and profound cold for which Rory, a young Londoner, is unprepared.
Hana Joi as Rory in A Hundred Words for Snow. Credit: Doug Williams
At a secret downtown location until March 1, 2020
There was a moment in Forget Me Not when, after having been invited with everyone else in the audience to participate, I seriously considered stepping into the action to stop something terrible from happening.
Ronnie Burkett in Forget Me Not. Credit: Dahlia Katz