You’ll forgive me if I don’t try to summarize the plot of any of the plays that make up the hour-long 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” created by Greg Allen, Written by the Neo-Futurists. There are, after all, 30 of them. And besides, part of the fun of […]
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Up the Hill Theatre’s power play
If you like your theatre loud, fast and risky, 30 Neo-Futurist Plays from “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind” created by Greg Allen, Written by the Neo-Futurists is a show you won’t want miss (to January 19, The Living Room, 2353 Agricola Street, 8pm. $6 and “a roll of a die”, so, between […]
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Tell it on the Mountain
Spreading the news In a world that rushes headlong from Christmas to Boxing Day to New Years, there’s something lovely about being able to pause a moment to revisit the Christmas story. Onelight Theatre’s Tell it on the Mountain offers that opportunity with a blend of original narration by poet/playwright Clyde A. Wray, rousing gospel […]
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On stage in 2013
In the course of a year, there are well over 100 plays to be seen in and around Halifax. They run the gamut from works taking their first baby steps into the world to big-budget extravaganzas. What I find interesting when I compile this annual list of favourites is that the plays I remember are […]
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13
MJ Photographics The talented teens of 13 In 13, Lachlan Topshee plays Evan, a big-city boy trying to fit into a painfully-small small town after his parents divorce. Evan is drawn to the outcasts Patrice (Nika Gantar) and Archie (Evan Matthews), but realizes his popularity is dependent on winning over the junior high school alpha-male […]
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Finger on the Pulse of Xara Youth Ensemble
Soulful singing from Xara Youth Ensemble Since 2007, Xara Choral Theatre has been blazing a glorious trail. This ensemble of women ages 18 to 30, lead by conductor Christina Murray and theatre practitioner Claire Leger, creates performances that are truly original combinations of choral singing, theatre and movement. Last year, Murray and Leger founded another […]
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Pericles
Stunning! That’s the word that sums up the DalTheatre production of Shakespeare’s shaggy dog story Pericles. The play, which tells an outlandish tale of a young prince’s adventures including multiple shipwrecks, the death (and resurrection) of his true love and the prostitution of his steadfastly virginal daughter, is all over the map (literally). However, the […]
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The Maid’s Tragedy
MJ Photographics Tragic maids Holly Arsenault and Maggie Hammel The Maid’s Tragedy is both an interesting exploration of the social role of women in 17th century European society and a real potboiler of a Jacobean soap opera. It’s the story of Amintor (Ira Henderson), a man who jilts his betrothed Aspatia (Holly Arsenault) in favour […]
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Oscar’s ballad
Zuppa Theatre Co. presents a milestone production—a 10 year anniversary remount of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment (October 10-20, Fort Massey United Church, 5303 Tobin Street, uncleoscar.eventbrite.com), and lucky you gets to witness how the company has aged like a fine wine. “I’m waiting to see what people who saw the show ten years ago think,” says […]
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The Comedy of Errors’ twins for the win
The Neptune Theatre production of The Comedy of Errors is set on a Greek Island in 1974, and according to Mauralea Austin, the details are just right. “I travelled in Greece in the ‘70s,” recalls Austin, who is playing the parts of the gruff maid Nell and the upright Abbess Amelia. “I lived in those […]
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23rd Atlantic Fringe program announced
Fringe is back! August 28 to September 8, you will have the opportunity, if not the physical capacity, to see over 50 local, Canadian and international theatre productions around town. Venues include The Neptune Studio Theatre, The Museum of Natural History, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Theatre Nova Scotia’s The Living Room, Bus Stop […]
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New York or bust
“I was entirely shocked to have been accepted,” says local playwright Kristin Slaney, on the news of her acceptance to Columbia University, to their notoriously difficult-to-get-accepted-to playwriting program. And since opening that fateful email, Slaney has kicked it into high gear, fundraising to support the costly, but no doubt beneficial, experience. “They only take around […]
