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Actor Jason Stevens recently performed a one-man production of Frankenstein at the historic Craigdarroch Castle. Mary Shelley’s masterpiece should work perfectly as an October show in a spooky old castle, but the final product was underwhelming. The castle was a particularly alluring aspect of the whole concept, so I was disappointed when we arrived at […]

Eight-piece BIPOC burlesque collective Virago Nation performed in the UVic Farquhar Auditorium on Saturday, October 21, and the entire show was an act of decolonization. The collective is all about decolonizing Indigenous—especially femme—sexuality. What they do is art, sex work, and good medicine all working harmoniously together. Settlers who sought to eradicate Indigenous ways of […]

I attended the Thursday, October 12 performance of the SETYA (Staging Equality Theatre for Young Audiences) double bill at University of Victoria’s Phoenix Theatre, and it was truly a meaningful experience. And not just for me: the show got a standing ovation in the almost-full theatre. The night featured The Woman Who Outshone the Sun […]

William Head Theatre Society was created in 1981 by a group of incarcerated men taking a theatre course within the William Head Institution. These men decided to create a company, which at the time was called WHAT (William Head Amateur Theatre) to produce plays to show to the public. Later, the company was renamed to […]

This past weekend, patrons of classical and operatic music gathered beneath the majestic gothic spires of Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral to witness George Frideric Handel’s Apollo E Dafne, presented by Early Music Vancouver (EMV) and featuring the Pacific Baroque Orchestra directed by Alexander Weimann. The music tells the story of Apollo, a Greek god whose […]

Chiaro:Scuro is a musical dance show by Broken Rhythms Dance Company that purportedly takes inspiration from the film noir genre and Germanic expressionism to create a performance rich with meaning, although as an abstract piece, the audience could be forgiven for missing all of it. According to the description, the performance “ties together the light […]

I saw Celexia, written and performed by Alexa R. McGinn, last night at the Victoria Fringe Festival. Celexia is a deep and thought-provoking account of McGinn’s own relationship with a dyslexia diagnosis. I was immediately drawn in to McGinn’s performance; she has a sharp and witty style. Her extremely personal story begins in childhood, and […]