1. A Tension to Detail Thu September 10, 8:10pm Fri September 11, 6:30pm Sat September 12, 4:30pm Sun September 13, 4:25pm Museum of Nat History, 1747 Summer St, $10 People often mistake going to the theatre as a passive experience. But a show like Gerard Harris’ is an ardent reminder that being an active audience member […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge – Day 6
Shine up your silver-wear. Thanks to a funding boost, the Atlantic Fringe gala has been upgraded from tinfoil to pure sterling! As chair of Halifax’s Special Events Advisory Committee, Councillor Steve Craig led the charge to increase the city’s financial support to Fringe, which had been inexplicably cut by 40 per cent this year. Yesterday, […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge – Day 5
Water Choke This is the first production I’ve seen so far that I would say is a must see, but I can’t. There is no way around it, Water Choke is intense, difficult, and at times harrowing to watch. The production describes itself as “a collection of stories, moments, … concerning suicide, sexual abuse and […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge 2015 – Day 3
Sit On My Face A school teacher recounts her difficulties with the sex education curriculum in an Ontario high school in director Sam Horak’s Sit On My Face. The anecdotes segue into monologues, by Horak and others, on subjects ranging from hooking up in a bar washroom to growing up bisexual in PEI. Like sex […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge 2015 – Day 1
Atlantic Fringe is celebrating its 25th birthday, and you’re invited. Take in some, or all, of the 50 shows offered over the next 11 days. To help you make your choices, The Coast has assembled a crackerjack team of reviewers: Meghan Hubley – Meghan Hubley is a poet, playwright and arts writer from Halifax, and a […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge 2015 – Day 4
Happy Hobo in Moonland At a time when many children lack the opportunities to play unstructured games and the freedom to use their imaginations both at school and at home comes a beautiful show for children from Rhys Bevan-John called Happy Hobo in Moonland. Bevan-John, with the help of beautiful masks and puppets, plays a […]
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Atlantic Fringe Binge 2015 – Day 2
Theatre Brouhaha’s Punch Up Is comedy something engrained into us at birth? Is it derived from observational wit? Finding light in tragedy? Is it The Funniest Man Alive taken as a comedic prisoner by the Most Pathetic Man Who Ever Existed? I’m inclined to think the latter. As of now, the comedy bar has been […]
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Debajehmujig Storytellers engage with The Global Savages
Shahin Sayadi has just secured a very important item for this year’s Prismatic Arts Festival. “We needed a fire permit,” he says, as if such requests are everyday occurrences for artistic producers. This fire is a very important element in one of Prismatic’s most unique offerings: The Global Savages. Manitoulin Island’s Debajehmujig Storytellers will gather […]
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Leah-Simone Bowen takes you into The Hallway
Playwright Leah-Simone Bowen knows better than to plan a quick exit from a reading of her play The Hallway. “People want to talk to me about it,” she explains on the phone from her home in Toronto. “I usually get people saying things like ‘that’s not what [I] expected to happen.’” That’s exactly what she […]
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Broad City
When Jeremy Webb dreams a dream, big things happen. The actor/director/producer/writer set out to bring a small, cabaret-style show to Neptune’s main stage during its normally dark summer months. Instead, it became a full-scale musical. Broadway on Argyle Street stars Webb and Martha Irving as two aging actors who return to the soon-to-be-demolished theatre where […]
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Antony and Cleopatra’s epic love
A slice of history and an epic love story combine to make Antony and Cleopatra spellbinding theatre, says Shakespeare By The Sea’s co-artistic director Elizabeth Murphy. “People have an amazing familiarity with this story,” she says, as the cast and crew begin to trickle into the Park Place Theatre space to begin a day of […]
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The show must go on the road
Summer in Nova Scotia is the perfect time to embark on a magical mystery tour, theatre-style. Head to the Annapolis Valley and take in three delightful, chilling and thrilling plays. The Tempest (Ross Creek Centre for the Arts), as adapted by Ken Schwartz, is touching and wonder-filled, anchored by a layered performance by Graham Percy […]
