Victoria BC
May Event Round-Up
Friday April 27, 2018 GET OUT CABARET Oh boy, we’re excited for Get OUT Cabaret at Intrepid’s Metro Studio Theatre. This is the official preview night for OUTstages, Victoria’s own queer theatre festival that runs in late June, and it’s a great chance to get a sneak peek at what’s in store for next month….
Review: Langham Court Theatre’s “Les Belles-Soeurs”
Langham Court Theatre recently presented a three-week run of Michel Tremblay’s 1965 play Les Belles-Soeurs. In this production, under the clear and bold direction of Judy Treloar, fourteen local actresses give a strong interpretation of this staple of Canadian theatre. While previously performed at Langham in 1997, the piece originally premiered in Montreal in 1968,…
Event Update: November 7th -November 11th
Tuesday, November 7th The CRUSH Collective is having their bi-monthly meeting at the Victoria Events Centre tonight at 7:30 to help share the workload, develop safe practices, and foster accountability and accessibility in their volunteer group. They’re looking for volunteers to help out with their events (like CRUSH 10 later this week), so this is…
Review: Arleen Paré’s “The Girls with Stone Faces”
It is a challenging feat to find the words to describe poetry as inspired as Arleen Paré’s. Her work defies description; it wants to be read, not explained. Paré holds the English language in her hand and wraps it around her reader with a profound kindness. Reading her work feels like coming home.
Event Round-up: October 29 to November 4, 2017
It’s Halloween – or rather, Halloweek – and Victoria is ready to celebrate. There’s a wonderful variety of spooky and fun events around town, but there’s also a few events that deserve an extra shoutout. Monday, October 30 The University of Victoria Students’ Society (UVSS) is hosting a UVic Pride Halloween Dinner and Movie Night…
Review: Atomic Vaudeville’s “The Rocky Horror Show LIVE”
Richard O’Brien’s rambunctious, unruly, bawdy cult-favourite The Rocky Horror Show returns to the Metro Studio Theatre this fall under the deft and assured direction of Britt Small.
Review: Langham Court’s “Girl in the Goldfish Bowl”
A young girl wears a diving mask and a Catholic-school uniform. Music swells as she swims around the stage, which is a surreal mélange of seascape and 1960s’ living room, complete with huge stands of seaweed in lieu of houseplants and dock posts in lieu of stair rails. Everything is awash in blue light. So…
