Rose is 43 years old, married, a mother, and has all the obvious fixings for a life that is content and fulfilling. And yet, she is unhappy, she is discontent, she is bitter in the way a lifetime accommodating demands and expectations can make someone bitter – especially, perhaps, a woman. In the moments we […]
Michael Lake
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Live Art Dance announces its upcoming season
“It’s a very kinetic season,” says Randy Glynn, Live Art Dance’s Artistic Director. The company known for bringing the crème de la crème of Canadian dance to Halifax is celebrating its 35th season. The upcoming roster of seven shows includes two Indigenous dance companies, a highly acclaimed ensemble from Spain, as well as local dance […]
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Lazier focus
There Might Be Others Directed and choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, music by Dan Trueman Sunday, June 4 at 7pm Sir James Dunn Theatre, 6101 University Avenue $35 scotiafestival.ns.ca/concerts-tickets What happens when 15 dancers and 12 musicians take the stage together? “People who have seen the show before say it feels like humanity in action,” says […]
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Review: Art
The story of Art is this: a wealthy, sophisticated white man buys a very expensive white painting, and his wealthy, sophisticated white friend is very upset about it. A third guy, more goofy than sophisticated but no less white, joins them and is the butt of all their jokes. This is Yasmina Reza’s award-winning 1994 […]
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Review: The Archive of Missing Things
A shroud of mystery surrounds Zuppa’s latest theatrical foray. Not so much a play as an interactive game, The Archive of Missing Things is experienced alone at a computer in Dalhousie’s Killam Library. The library is open during the show, so students walk around, as do the actors. We are told many times by a […]
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Review: TreeGirl and The West Woods
TreeGirl TreeGirl is the latest play from Haligonian writer Meghan Hubley. The story follows Laurel (Keelin Jack) a palliative care nurse who is haunted by her former patient Audrey (Martha Irving) and so climbs up a tree to contemplate life and be somewhere “new”. Crossing Laurel’s path on his way to the cemetery is Audrey’s […]
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Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
2b Theatre’s latest show tells the true story of the playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents who came to Canada from Romania in 1908. The beloved Ben Caplan is at the helm of the play, guiding the evening along with story and song, leading to flashbacks performed out of a shipping container-turned magnificent modular set. Mary Fay […]
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Missing + you
The Archive of Missing Things May 15-27 Dalhousie Killam Library 6225 University Avenue, $25-$30 stages.tickethalifax.com Dalhousie’s Killam Library is the setting for Zuppa Theatre’s latest creation, The Archive of Missing Things, the company’s first new show in two years. Described as an “ambient drama,” it’s part-game and part-live performance, where audience members are given tablets and […]
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Review: KAMP
Halifax artists Garry Williams and Jamie Bradley have undertaken a very ambitious project with KAMP. It is an original full-length musical about gay men in a Nazi concentration camp who, despite imminent danger, or in some ways perhaps because of it, create a musical revue in their barrack. It is rich terrain for a story […]
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Old Stock’s dark relevance
Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story May 4-14 The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street $20-$35 Traveller’s Curse Teaser from 2b theatre company on Vimeo In 2015, Stephen Harper was much derided for using the term “old stock” during a federal leaders’ debate to describe a group of Canadians. “It was a moment that jolted me,” […]
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Review: Prismes
Live Art Dance has done it again. Continuing their mission to present cutting-edge contemporary dance in Halifax, their latest offering from Montréal Danse is a spectacular one. The visiting company’s six dancers, along with choreographer Benoit Lachambre, have created a compelling, innovative, and utterly beautiful performance. Prismes begins by easing the audience into the playful world […]
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Review: The Hours Turn to Nothing
Xara Choral Theatre is known for combining choral music, choreography, and storytelling for an eclectic style of performance. With The Hours Turn To Nothing, the massively talented group of young women have joined forces with novelist Ami McKay to tell the story of midwives who came to Halifax to care for many women who went […]
