THEATRE REVIEWS: acting
(in chronological order)
“Uniformly solid work from the cast, especially Andy Thompson as Tesla…”
Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
on Brilliant! (1996)
Electric Company Theatre
“Thompson truly carries the show. His playing of poor Nathan as a likable schlep who grows more crazed with every word he reads about Hebron has a palpable sense of the suffering some Jews feel when forced to confront the excesses of Israel.”
Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun
on Reading Hebron (1998)
Firehall Arts Centre
“Andy Thompson makes a wryly comic von Alvensleben.”
Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
on The Wake (1999)
Electric Company Theatre
“Andy Thompson’s performance as Michael is the rock upon which this production is built… The subtlest comic performance of the season…”
Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
on Valparaiso (2001)
The Virtual Stage
“Andy Thompson gives a bravura performance as a man who has misplaced not only his body, but his soul.”
Valerie Gregory, The Globe and Mail
on Valparaiso (2001)
The Virtual Stage
..“Thompson is so magnificently overwrought that he creates a blizzard of paper in a portable office. His over-the-top frustration is funny, yet the comedy has an edge.”
Leanne Campbell, Westender
on The Fall (2003)
Electric Company Theatre
“Andy Thompson’s Wayne is a great nerd, kind of an evil Eugene Levy.”
Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
on The Fall (2003)
Electric Company Theatre
“Thompson again nails the neuroses of this confused thirtysomthing, who married a shiksa and let her slip away, just like everything else in his life.”
Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun
on The League of Nathans (2004)
Touchstone Theatre
“A strong sense of physical comedy…”
Peter Birnie, The Vancouver Sun
on Other Freds (2005)
The Only Animal
“The coterie of Freds contains some of Vancouver’s most talented physical comics… Andy Thompson is a big, bald, angry Fred.”
Leanne Campbell, Westender
on Other Freds (2005)
The Only Animal
(in process; more to be filed…)
