Once a year, during that in-between-time of ever-crisper days that still warrant sunscreen, the city stirs. Posters for plays and one-person-shows begin papering poles. Streamers billow out of the mouth of forgotten places like the Old Company House. Professional performing artists present their pet projects that are too out there for anywhere else. They share venues equally with the novice, the theatre lover, the everyday Haligonian who keeps thinking “I can’t believe I’m doing this—but isn’t it fun.” Cheap, experimental, often excellent theatre saturates the city and the brain. The curtains rise. The dreamers awake. Here are 16 of them.
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This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2019.
