“I wrote a version of this play two years ago as my final project for Roberta Barker’s Gender in Theatre class at Dalhousie,” says Gillian Clarke, playwright of Understudy. “Although the script has evolved since then, I have always wanted the central focus of the play to discuss the consequences of the social roles and […]
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L: A Fragmentation Subway Waltz
Kristin Slaney is an elusive subway conductor: you will hear her voice, but you won’t see her. Recently landing at Columbia University’s playwright program in New York, the Fringe Fest veteran was here long enough to get L: A Fragmentation Subway Waltz on the tracks. In the able hands of director Keelin Jack, starring Lesley […]
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Backstage
Since the 1500s, playwrights have been experimenting with meta-theatre. From Hamlet to Chekov to Six Characters in Search of an Author, theatre has always confronted the idea of theatre itself. Devices like plays within plays, audience interaction and overt personal references turn performance into theory right before the eyes of the audience. It is disorienting […]
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The Sh*t Show: Misconceptions and Nuggets of Truth Deep Within
It might seem like comic Josh Dunn and theatre regular Howard Beye make an odd couple, but together they have created a one-person Fringe performance that will challenge expectations and inspire. The Sh*t Show: Misconceptions and Nuggets of Truth Deep Within uses the real-life experience of Dunn’s cerebral palsy and builds a world around it […]
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Sports? Check.
Pump your bod like A-Rod on Halifax’s local sports scene. We don’t need the Rogers Centre, we’ve got the Metro Centre. With a rich sporting history that dates back to the first days of hockey, Nova Scotia is home to some of Canada’s greatest boxers, ice legends and wrestlers. And our professional, minor and varsity […]
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Rock camp
Even if you’re new to the city, you should already know that Halifax has always been the centre of sweet music scenes. The Mamas and The Papas, Sloan, Ben Caplan, Cousins and Classified all got their starts on a small stage in Halifax. If you’ve always wanted to be in a band or get involved […]
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Breakfast specials
Mary’s Place Cafe I and II The breakfast at Mary’s is so good, they had to open a second location. Mary’s Place offers all-day breakfast specials, including Middle Eastern breakfasts and vegan delights. My favourite: the 3X3. 2752 Robie Street and 5982 Spring Garden Road The Ardmore Tearoom Open since 1958, the Ardmore’s milkshakes bring […]
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Martial law
Since 2002, Martial Canterel (AKA Sean McBride) has been making splashes after diving head-first into new wave with NYC pals. “There was a real internalization of wave music as a kind of untapped periphery. For us, it narrated a history of ideas that remained interred, and because of that, there was something very private for […]
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Myles Deck and the Fuzz’s regrowth
“I always thought we were a really awesome rock and roll band. We played every show like it was our last,” says Myles Deck. From about 2006 to 2011, Myles Deck and the Fuzz was Halifax’s most intense live act, taking cues from the stage presence of Iggy Pop and James Brown. “I wanted to […]
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SappyFest VIII: You were perfect
SappyFest 8. This year, they said don’t get your hopes up. But I was so excited to see the wind turbines that, by the time we hit Sackville, New Brunswick, I was using my outside voice in the car. Hopes were rebelliously high for the sweetest, most intimate music festival in Canada. And Sappyfest, the […]
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Rachel Sermanni’s new Scotland
“It’s me, a lady, with a guitar, singing,” says Carrbridge, Scotland’s Rachel Sermanni. The 21-year-old makes her first trip to Nova Scotia for the Natal Day concert at Alderney Landing on Saturday. She joins Joel Plaskett Emergency, Mo Kenney, Slowcoaster, The Will Be Gones and Young River. “I can’t wait to visit Nova Scotia to […]
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Devil’s in the details
A<fter releasing Kentville-inspired The Town in 2011, The Devil’s Half Acre went on hiatus when lead guitarist Chase Ross moved to Montreal. But you know what they say: you can take the man out of Kentville, but you can’t take Kentville out of the man. Returning a year later, Ross and his refreshed rock and […]