Your Plank Panel seeking motivation:

Ashleigh Dalton who likes to assemble puzzles, IKEA furniture and food such as lasagna
Rachel Scott who likes to assemble complex relationships, yoga sequences and logic traps

Who took in Radix Theatre’s Assembly, part of this year’s PuSh Festival.

Ashleigh: If you are looking for motivational seminars in Vancouver, a quick internet search shows [...]

Trampoline Hall is a Toronto-based event consisting of lecturers presenting information about subjects that they are not experts in. This does not mean that the subjects are not well researched, however. The lecturers seem to have done varying degrees of preparation, ranging from a few pages of notes to an elaborate power point presentation. After [...]

Musical of Musicals: The Musical! is a hilarious must-see for all musical theatre lovers. Throughout the course of the show, our very talented cast takes us through several incarnations of the same plot – all performed in the styles of different composers. Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and Rodgers and Hammerstein are a sampling of [...]

After Life was a riveting one-person show about three women who live at different times during the 20th century.  The success of this piece lay in Candy Simmon’s phenomenal acting and the tightness of the writing.  Simmons’s performance was exceptional, not because of her abundant technical abilities (she handles dialects from Appalachia, Minnesota, and New [...]

I roared my pants off.  Come on, what isn’t inherently funny about a musical based on the supposed life and times of a medieval printing press inventor?  In this hour plus show, the co-creators of “Gutenberg! The Musical!” do their earnest and enthusiastic best to pitch their musical brainchild to us through performing a staged [...]

Memory Machine:  bizarre and courageous.
From the moment I walked into the theatre, I was fascinated. One of the lead actors was already onstage, strapped to a vertical bed, and lolling white-faced and open-mouthed to the sound of deep, interrupted breathing. Disturbed and weirdly captivated by the scene, I was curious about how this story would [...]

Barbara Bell both wrote and performed this one-woman show about a successful academic who must recover her past through the haze of fragmenting psyche. Obviously Bell put a lot of effort and love into this show, and she worked really hard to make the show come to life.  It is perhaps this very zeal, however, [...]