All Trevor Nairne Reviews

Young, gifted and black—there's a world waiting for her

Slim Actress. A vanity check.

April 26th, 2010

Sabrena McDonald is one of the most talented thespians under 30, and one of the few capable of carrying a one-woman show.  But she does not carry ‘Slim Actress’. Why?

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?

Diana

Diana.

August 5th, 2009

“Diana” throws us, without reserve or apology, into the aspirations of ordinary Jamaicans—the kind of working-class citizens who don’t have the time, the diplomas or the resources to read theatre reviews in the newspaper.

Colored Girls

Colored Girls.

April 12th, 2009

Colored Girls is a work of intense pain, the pain of living a life doubly disadvantaged—being black and female in America—without any crutches except those you fashion for yourself.

Love Games

Love Games.

September 25th, 2008

When Shakespeare turned the world into his stage, he laid out seven ages, the third being “the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow”. Patrick Brown, the playwright behind comedy-of-errors Love Games, has his own, more malevolent, view – his lovers do not sigh; they slip in and out [...]