Coal Mine
iPhoto caption: Sophia Walker in 'Eureka Day.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine’s Eureka Day offers a nuanced portrayal of medical mistrust
What could possibly urge people to deny experts, doctors, and researchers at the risk of their own life — and the lives of their children? These thoughts swirled through my brain as I entered Coal Mine Theatre to watch the compelling piece of art that is Eureka Day.
iPhoto caption: Kristen Thomson in 'Fulfillment Centre.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine’s Fulfillment Centre asks how we end up alone, together
The production understands the play’s themes, yet feels limited by a script that delivers a package it never fully opens.
iPhoto caption: Ted Dykstra and Alexander Thomas in 'Waiting for Godot.' Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Waiting for Godot is lucid and unpretentious
Directed by Kelli Fox, this Waiting for Godot embraces the bodily sensibilities of Beckett’s dark humour, grounding his abstract poetics in the kidneys, the feet, and the dirt.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Elana Emer.
REVIEW: Coal Mine Theatre’s Job is terrifyingly evocative and layered with suspense
Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich unpacks tensions around age, gender, politics, race, and class, painting a truthful yet unflattering portrait of the world we live in today.