Winner of the 2010 Critics’ Choice Spotlight Awards for Best Professional Production, Best Direction (Brian Richmond), Best Professional Performance (Thea Gill as Blanche Dubois), and Best Lighting Design (Kerem Ҫetinel)!
“Blue Bridge has done it again; the highly professional veneer of this production makes it easy to forget this is a company only midway through its second season.” – Monday Magazine
“In many ways, Streetcar is a perfect feminine companion piece to Salesman: both tell the story of a not-quite protagonist’s desperate attempt to cling to their version of the American dream by cloaking themselves in delusions with tragic results.” – Monday Magazine
“four and a half out of five stars!”
“Gill soars in Streetcar Named Desire”
“This production is solid throughout, boasting a fine cast and a spectacular set. That said, this is, from start to finish, Thea Gill’s hour … Portraying the fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois, Gill’s opening night performance was powerful and haunting. With great skill and passion, she captured the strange, glittering luminosity of a desperate soul struggling for life.”
- Adrian Chamberlain, The Times Colonist
Hank Williams – the Show He Never Gave
The first sold out performance in Blue Bridge history!
“You’ll have big fun with Hank!” – The Times Colonist
“five out of five stars!” – The Times Colonist
“Country music fan or not, you’ll be a Williams convert after witnessing this musical. A show that appeals to everyone, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave is a thoroughly entertaining and heart-wrenching production that has audiences singing lines of their favourite Williams songs long after they leave the show.”
- Thandi Fletcher, The Times Colonist
Loot
“A great night out!” – CBC
“four stars out of five!”
“Angry comedy of the ’60s still a tour-de-force”
“If there were any doubts as to whether Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre could sustain the high-calibre of its inaugural season, they were extinguished during its entertaining encore season-opening production of Joe Orton’s black comedy Loot.”
“The cast is top-drawer, highlighted by scene-stealer Mackie’s hilarious turn as Truscott, the ridiculously judgemental investigator who fancies himself a Sherlock Holmes-ian sleuth but whose outrageous deductions confirm he’s as clueless as Clouseau.”
“Special mention must also be made of Rod Peter Jr., drop-dead hilarious and remarkably pliable as the concealed, rudely-mishandled corpse of Mrs. McLeavy. It’s as much of a comic device as her dentures and a glass-eye that had the audience in stitches.”
-Michael D. Reid, The Times Colonist
2009
Death of a Salesman
” … the best… theatre in Victoria over the past 12 months…”
“… And David Ferry, playing Willy Loman, offered a tour de force performance remarkable for its energy and intensity. The play was well directed by Brian Richmond, who dug deep into the play’s great heart while skilfully navigating its complex structure — almost orchestral in sweep.
“…It was heartening, too, to see Blue Bridge Theatre offer such quality theatre, especially as a new company.”
“Five stars out of five stars! “
- Adrian Chamberlain, Victoria Times Colonist December 26, 2009
“David Ferry was fantastic as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman.”
- John Threlfall, Monday Magazine, December 23, 2009
Blue Bridge production, lead actor, director named ‘best’ for 2009
…Victoria’s annual Critic’s Choice Spotlight Awards — juried by the theatre critics from Monday Magazine, CBC Radio and the Times Colonist — named the Blue Bridge production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman best professional production of 2009. David Ferry, who portrayed Willy Loman, was named best actor.
- Victoria Times Colonist December 24, 2009
As You Like It
Bright and breezy meditation on love is terrific summer fare
“… Newly minted Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre makes a promising debut with this production. Director Jeannette Lambermont-Morey has transformed the McPherson Playhouse into a giant story-telling circle. It’s a clever notion, providing a down-to-earth, homey tone that well suits this rustic love story.”
- Adrian Chamberlain, Victoria Times Colonist, June 8, 2009
Into the Woods: There’s much ado about As You Like It
“A collective sigh of relief and a heartfelt ‘bravo’swept across the city last week with the opening of … Blue Bridge Theatre’s inaugural production, As You Like It, which more than lived up to its expectations of quality with its debut at the Mac. … Shakespeare’s romantic forest retreat is well worth catching.”
- John Threlfall, Monday Magazine, December 23, 2009
The Fantasticks
An old Chestnut conquers: Youthful talent captures charm of musical ode to love
” …The final show in Blue Bridge’s inaugural summer season is as much a celebration of a new wave of youthful talent blossoming in this city as it is of romance in this innovative spin on the musical chestnut.”
- Michael D. Reid, Victoria Times Colonist, August, 8, 2009
