The content warnings for Vitals on Factory’s website are: “This play contains explicit descriptions of violence, gore, sexual assault, animal and child abuse and self-harm including suicide. It is not recommended for younger audiences.” As such, my review will also be touching on these topics. If you’re planning to see the show, please heed these…
The process of going to rehab has been weirdly skewed by the media: a celebrity heading to some kind of glamorous retreat in a remote location and emerging a few months later revitalized and ready to take on the world. You will find no such glamour in Duncan Macmillan’s People, Places and Things; what you…
Do you have trouble staying on task? Thoughts always running a million miles a minute? Then have we got the seminar for you! Alec Toller directs, and co-stage manages 13 Plays About ADHD All At The Same Time, a pseudo-seminar designed to help audience members understand a bit more about life with ADHD. Featuring a…
The final show of Coal Mine Theatre’s season is the Canadian Premiere of Lucy Pebble’s The Effect. Directed by Mitchell Cushman, with brilliant design by Nick Blais, The Effect follows two patients as they enter into a clinical trial for a new anti-depressant. Breaking all the rules, the two patients find themselves in love with…
A View from the Box 