Talk performance

Jan 21-23, 35. The Roundhouse. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. (Warning: This is article is part review and part discussion of current arts funding ...

A User's Guide to Authenticity is a Feeling — PME-ART Feb 5-6. Western Front. PuSh Festival 2020. By Alex Lazaridis F. Authenticity is a performance conventi...

Photo by Jocelyn Michel

Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights — Compagnie Marie Chouinard March 15 and 16, Vancouver Playhouse, Dance House Season By Alex Lazaridis F. Qu...

Feb 2-7 Anvil Centre By Mikis Vrettakos The Anvil Center in New Westminster is a building at odds with the older structures on Columbia Street. Where the An...

January 24-27 The Roundhouse By Alex Lazaridis F. As I enter the Roundhouse theatre, near start time, performer-writer Selina Thompson is already on stage, s...

November 6-8 The Dance Centre By Alex Lazaridis Ferguson A main feature of The Black Piece, by Dutch-Flemish choreographer Ann Van den Broek, is a hand-held ...

May 23-27 The Cultch ​ By Hailey McCloskey ​ Written and directed by Raina Von Waldenberg, the interaction starts immediately. I walk in and am greeted in s...

​ May 23-26 Firehall Arts Centre ​ By Hailey McCloskey ​ Serge Bennathan's Contes Cruels opens with a bare stage, exposed, no curtains. Scuff marks marr the ...

Wet — an immersive play at The Russian Hall Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Immersive theatre — theatre where the audience is right inside the performance apparatus ...

March 14-17 Vancouver Playhouse Virtuosity and Absolution in Betroffenheit Alex Lazaridis Ferguson [Note: This review originally appeared in RealTime Arts af...

Jan 31-Feb 1 Performance Works Alex Lazaridis Ferguson ​ I’m in a theatre watching a game. What kind of game is it? What kind of theatre is it? The show is c...

Jan 24-28 The Cultch Hailey McCloskey I'm Not Here, written, directed and designed by Doireann Coady (Theatreclub, Ireland), is about a woman's path to recon...

January 26-28 Roundhouse Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Death is everywhere in Endings. A gradual kind of death, one that allows for reflection. It’s what the piece...

Jan 24-27 Performance Works (Image by Gregory Lorenzutti) Alex Lazaridis Ferguson Are the humans still human? Meeting is a performance about modern industria...