On Sunday the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival came to a close and I was lucky to catch one of the last screenings, Joven y Alocada. The Chilean film was the debut feature for director Marialy Rivas, who co-wrote the screenplay with Camilla Gutierrez. The film, based on Gutierrez’s experiences is a powerful and intimate […]
I was excited to be at the Stanley for opening night of Clybourne Park. What’s not to love about theatre folk getting dressed up and sipping on some chardonnay in a beautiful theatre? Knowing only a loose synopsis of the story, the awards it has won and finding myself in the coveted Arts Club venue, […]
I did not tell Absinthe Bistro‘s proprietors that I had recently spent four months “studying” in Lyon, France. What’s more, I was careful not to reveal to them that that entire semester’s “study” had consisted truly of a lavish tour of the town’s endless cafes and patisseries, bouchons and brasseries. You see, my extended visitation of […]
Yes, you read the title correctly. God is a Scottish Drag Queen! He has chosen to present himself to us in order to clear up some misunderstandings, and fallacies regarding himself and his role as the Almighty. Most of all, this show is a way for God to let off some steam about what humans […]
Going by the title alone, you might think this show is some boot camp for knitting or a 101 lesson maybe. What the one woman show is really about, however, is a girl named Nell, World War II and the knitting culture that surrounded it – all nicely stitched together with knitting songs from the […]
Many children, including myself when I was a child, have shared the same innocent fantasy. Behind closed doors and in the dark, we all wished that our dear and most treasured toys would come to life. A stop-motion animation film that brings this childhood fantasy to life – Toys in the Attic tells a story […]
This Vancouver Fringe Fest show has Missie Peters unsurprisingly asking the question “Where is my flying car?” It is the year 2012 after all. From the Jetsons to trashy sci-fi novels we were all promised to be racing around on hover boards and colonising Mars by now. This one woman show explores hopes and […]
On Sunday the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival came to a close and I was lucky to catch one of the last screenings, Joven y Alocada. The Chilean film was the debut feature for director Marialy Rivas, who co-wrote the screenplay with Camilla Gutierrez. The film, based on Gutierrez’s experiences is a powerful and intimate […] 