Kelly Thornton: Until May 8 at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace, 30 Bridgman Ave. nightwoodtheatre.net This may be the era of sunny ways in Canada, where our prime minister and premier greet Syrian refugees with big smiles and winter coats at the airport, according to Toronto Star. But all refugees aren’t welcomed as sweetly; East Coast playwright Mary Vingoe puts one such story onstage in Refuge. Directed by Kelly Thornton. It a worthy subject but one that unfortunately dulls with a tame production on now from Nightwood Theatre. It not always right — sometimes the telling is the innovative part — but it holds up in Vingoe play: the voice she intends to pull from obscurity is the one missing here. An old theatre adage is, Show, don’t tell.
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