Le Theatre de Boheme, fresh off its run of 1984, has already got its next production lined up: a re-staging of its 2004 production of Sartre’s No Exit at the Prague International Fringe Festival. Thirty-five companies will put on 180 performances in one week, beginning May 29. Seeing as how a last-minute trip to Toronto […]
Tara Thorne
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Still On the Waterfront
Dartmouth thespian fest On the Waterfront concludes this weekend with four Atlantic Canadian plays for your consumption. Ken Brown’s one-man show Life After Hockey and the murder comedy 3 Dogs Barking have their final performances tonight, May 11. Check out Kate Watson’s reviews at thecoast.ca. Stars in the Sky Morning, from the brilliantly innovative Theatre […]
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Ode to bondage and joy
Bettie Page is being photographed. The photographer—a police officer by day—speaks to her kindly, and she has not seen much kindness lately. He’s clicking his shutter quickly, directing Bettie’s facial expressions. “Give me ‘scared,’” he says. Bettie opens her mouth wide, mock-screaming in terror. “Give me ‘pert,’” he says. Bettie thinks about it for a […]
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Lucky 13
One of the most relevant festivals in this province kicks off tonight as the On the Waterfront Theatre Festival and its junior (yeah, we went there) fest Kids on the Waterfront turn lucky number 13. (Same as The Coast! Coincidence? Um, yeah, but we like our pointless statistics. Fourteen percent of our readers know this.) […]
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It’s a Marvel
Halifax’s comic scene is all abuzz this week with the May 3 release of Civil War, “an event in seven parts” from Marvel. Why should you give a honk? Because the series was illustrated by Halifax resident Steve McNiven, that’s why. “There are a lot of folks looking forward to this series,” says Calum Johnston, […]
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Screen saviours
ViewFinders attendees (and their parents), take note: this moviemaking business is a real, live career! Head to Park Lane at 6pm on April 20 for a screening of nine films by graduates of NSCAD’s film program. They include documentaries by Grant Bagnell (DOA: Depiction of Addiction) and Courtney O’Hearn (House of Blues); dramas from Cailin […]
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Watching and talking
Let us first do away with the term “chick flick.” Unless we are going to institute the term “dick flick” for every male-driven film that treats women as caricature—that would be most films, then—let us read no more of Peter Travers’ “chick flick hell.” The whole world is dick flick hell, dude. Find a new […]
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We’re watching
Upstart company Le Theatre de Boheme is close to a year old now, so they thought they’d celebrate the anniversary with an easy adaptation of 1984. “1984 doesn’t exactly fall into the mandate of the company,” says director David Connellan, laughing wearily on a break at the Khyber. “We’re more minimalist.” The production features more […]
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Short shorts
A handful of new filmmakers will screen their works on Friday—or, in Variety-speak, Digitial Doc Denizens Drop Debuts—as part of a journalism school workshop taught by noted local movie maven Sylvia Hamilton. “The one that I did is about band names,” says King’s student Karley Tabak of the tentatively titled Name, which she made with […]
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Awards of Merritt
The diverse and talented Atlantic theatre family came together at Alderney Landing on March 27 to celebrate its brightest and its best. The 2006 Merritt Awards ceremony was a glamorous affair complete with red carpet and live band. MC Marty Burt had the audience in stitches as he took aim at the practice of hiring […]
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It’s all your fault
The biggest question on your mind through these fevered, Juno-drenched weeks—not, “How did they get Coldplay?” not, “Why is Coldplay here?” not, “Will Gwyneth come?”—has doubtless been, “How the fuck did Diana Krall’s Christmas album get five nominations?” Well see, it’s like this. The nominees in the biggest categories, the ones you will see on […]
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Succeeder
February 3, 2005 Kathleen Edwards calls from home in Toronto. She hates it there. She moved to the city for love, from Wakefield, Quebec, to live with her guitarist and new husband, Colin Cripps. Lately she’d been coming around. But then. “Some asshole backed into me in a parking lot and left!” she says, like […]