Ted Dykstra
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: A Case for the Existence of God production still by Cylla von Tiedemann.
REVIEW: A Case for the Existence of God makes meaning of platonic intimacy
The play’s urgency and strength come from the gentle way it presents male vulnerability and platonic intimacy — for lack of which men may burn themselves, or the rest of us, to the ground.
iPhoto caption: Photo by Dahlia Katz
REVIEW: Dion: A Rock Opera is a cask of theatrical ecstasy in need of further fermentation
Coal Mine Theatre’s first-ever world premiere generates an otherworldly atmosphere and luxuriates in the Dionysian with glorious style.