All Theatre Reviews

Priming the pump for a creative wave?

The Plumber. Rebirth of a nation.

April 20th, 2010

Does ‘The Plumber’ in particular, and roots plays in general, deserve the unsavory reputation the supposed intelligentsia have given it?


He did what?  With who?

Puppy Love. Oliver, with a twist.

April 14th, 2010

For those keeping count, Puppy Love is the fourth recent production to feature a May-December romance. Why are our playwrights preoccupied with this particular taboo?


Dahlia Harris and Everaldo Creary in 'Me and Mi Chapsie'

Me and Mi Chapsie. Citizen as performer, society as stage.

November 6th, 2009

In Aston Cooke’s world, to be Jamaican is to be a performer. His new play, Me and Mi Chapsie, is a humourous treatise on that idea.


PSSST!/dark diaspora

PSSST!/dark diaspora.

October 30th, 2009

Edna Manley’s twin short plays were let down by their architects, not by the bright-eyed, bustling students who performed them. Does the school know what role it is playing?


Two Can Play

Two Can Play.

October 19th, 2009

Rhone captures, like a photographer, a time-lapse portrait of the Jamaican marriage in collapse, squashed into the two-hour confines of modern drama.