At the performance of I, Claudia, I was seated between two young teenagers, one was with a friend, the other with a parent. Their reactions throughout the show were palpable; the chuckles of recognition, the uncomfortable squirms, even the occasional chatter, which was less distracting than it was illuminating. I wouldn’t do that, you know, […]
Michael Lake
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Ruth Marsh wings it
Ruth Marsh, Corpus Melliferous To February 26 The Craig Gallery, 2 Ochterloney Street Opening Wednesday, February 1, 7-9pm Ruth Marsh is obsessed with bees. For the past several years, this NSCAD grad has been asking people to mail them to her. And they have—some 600 bees have come in from across Canada. Marsh taxidermies these bees and […]
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Play review: Speaking in Tongues
Australian playwright Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues begins with much promise. The set, music and lighting design are eerie and evocative, and the opening scene is a beautifully choreographed introduction to the characters and their world. The first half of the play tracks two couples coincidentally cheating with one another, their infidelities trapped in a […]
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Review: Kim’s Convenience
Ins Choi’s play, Kim’s Convenience, now also a CBC television series, follows a Korean family in Canada running a convenience store. Walking into the theatre is like entering a very familiar place; the set is a realistic replica of a typical store with the same things on the shelves, the same colours on the wall, […]
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Dance review: Live Art’s New Works succeeds in the abstract
Live Art Dance is presenting two new works featuring some of Halifax’s most accomplished dancers: Jacinte Armstrong, Lisa Phinney Langley and Gillian Seaward-Boone. The first piece, I Chart, performed by Armstrong and choreographed by BC-based Sarah Chase, is a short, minimalist piece where gestures are matched to words and combined in various patterns and repetitions. […]
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Top 5 local theatre productions
The Weekend Healer By Bryden MacDonald KAZAN CO-OP A devastating family drama from Nova Scotian playwright Bryden MacDonald boasted potent performances from Stephanie MacDonald and Kathryn MacLellan as mother and daughter with a dark past, and even darker future. Let’s Try This Standing By Gillian Clark Keep Good Theatre Company Personal, funny solo show chronicling […]
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Kick at the Dark Theatre’s dark Christmas
David Sedaris’ Uncomfortable Christmas Holiday Fun Time Hour! The Waiting Room, 6040 Almon Street To December 18 $15/$20 As a break from the typically sentimental Christmas fare, Kick at the Dark Theatre is offering some dark holiday humour with performances of stories written by funny-guy David Sedaris. In its third production, the company is taking […]
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Nation a meditative sonic experience
I am Chandelier. This is my machine. And so we are introduced to Aaron Collier’s musical persona and Nation’s puppet master of sorts. Nation is created by Collier along with Richie Wilcox, Nick Bottomley and Matt Miller. Collier conducts from his DJ table, backed by a 30-foot wide projection screen with immersive videos of landscapes […]
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Revenge is sweet in The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy Written by Thomas Kyd & Adapted by Dan Bray Directed by Dan Bray The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street November 15th to 20th $15-$25 Thomas Kyd wrote The Spanish Tragedy in the late 16th century, a play that would become terribly famous and inspire such minor works as Hamlet. Halifax’s Villain’s […]
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Life is in the Small Things
Small Things November 10-11, 7:30pm November 12, 4pm & 8:30pm November 13, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $30-$52 Birdy (Heather Rankin) has been hired as Patricia’s housekeeper. Patricia (Jenny Munday) is a retired school teacher, measured and intellectual. Birdy is a ball of energy who will talk about anything just to […]
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Theatre review: The Colour of Courage
The Colour of Courage is a new play inspired by the journal of writer-director Anthony Sherwood’s great-uncle Captain William White II, a Nova Scotian and first black officer in the British Army during WWI. The action follows the No. 2 Construction Battalion, known as the Black Battalion, as they hide in a trench under enemy fire. […]
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Breaking: aliens attack
The War of the Worlds Friday, November 4, 8pm The World Trade and Convention Centre, Summit Suite, 8th floor $20 You will have already heard the news by the time you read this. What began as a strange object landing on a farm in the Annapolis Valley, has, within hours, turned into a world-awide alien […]
