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These times of midterm preparations can be harrowing, but on Friday, October 18 I got a reprieve when I took a trip out to William Head Institution to review William Head on Stage’s new theatre production, Hatched.  William Head has been running their globally recognized theatre program William Head on Stage (WHoS) since 1981, producing […]

Rocky Horror Picture Show has been celebrated as an eccentric cult classic for almost 50 years. Bringing the 1975 musical comedy back to the stage is no small feat, but local drag queen Shelita Cox has proven that this cinematic masterpiece has more to give, with a twist. Cox—my drag grandma—got the idea to do […]

On Thursday, September 19, The Belfry Theatre premiered the English language premiere of Quebecois play From Alaska, and the results were mixed. The story is ambitious, following the relationship between a lesbian librarian and a local teenage boy who breaks into her house. Both have just experienced a heartbreaking loss, and as their understanding of […]

Jewish-ish is a performance piece by Canadian violinist Laura Nerenberg that combines storytelling with violin playing. Nerenberg describes what it’s been like for her living half a century as a secular Jew in Catholic Montreal. The crux of Jewish-ish—part of this year’s Fringe Fest, with one last performance at 7 pm on Saturday, August 31—is […]

When I first walked into the Metro Studio to see the Fringe production Castle of Glass, I immediately sensed something was different from the status quo. Usually, before theatre shows, the audience is greeted with the eerie silence of an empty stage, or the sounds of pre-recorded music piped in over the speakers. Instead, a […]

The Illusionary Magic of Sitruc James is a fun venture into sleight-of-hand magic, presented by the Victoria Fringe Festival. This light-hearted show boasts a wide variety of tricks: some we’ve probably seen before, others that seem completely inexplicable. Sitruc James, a comedian with a wry wit, has been practicing magic for over 30 years, since […]

Welcome to Croglin is a short play produced by Victoria theatre company Outpost 31 and presented through the Fringe Festival. Written by David Elendune, it tells of a struggling playwright who falls asleep and dreams that the ghost of Katharine Hepburn visits him to “right his wrongs,” according to the production’s description. While I’m not […]