Ashley Pike Michael McPhee and Glen Matthews star in Logan and I, It’s pretty common to see several members of Halifax’s tight-knit theatre community supporting fellow artists on any given night at any given show in the city. But that was not the case with the sold-out run of The Doppler Effect’s production of Logan […]
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Surrealist 7 Stories
Tom Barnett, Murray Furrow and Jackie Torrens take a leap of faith. “It’s like taking a calm bath.” This is the surprising answer that actor Jackie Torrens gives when asked what it’s like to have to endure multiple, speedy costume changes to play several very different women in Neptune’s production of 7 Stories. “I just […]
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Reigning Spamalot
Nerd alert: if “it’s only a flesh wound” makes you giddy, this news is for you. Monty Python’s Spamalot is coming to the Metro Centre for three performances, Saturday, October 16 at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, October 17 at 2pm. Back in 2005, the theatrical adaptation of the film Monty Python and the Holy […]
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Busking 101
Is this a busker? According to the festival, it’s not. Along with cash for its performers, the enjoyment and expectations of audiences, the Halifax International Busker Festival raises a perennial question: Who is a busker? For Kim Hendrickson, president of ESP Productions, the company that puts on the festival, a busker performs a “circle show. […]
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Blackbird sings at the Living Room
Heather Watts Shawn Duggan as Ray and Kathryn McCormack as Una in Blackbird. British playwright David Harrower‘s Blackbird was on Richie Wilcox‘s wishlist, so he jumped at the chance to return to Halifax to direct the play for Angels & Heroes Theatre Company, opening August 9 at the The Living Room (2353 Agricola Street). “I’m […]
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Lee-Anne Poole Splinters off
Don’t let the plot fool you: Splinters is not based on a true story. It’s just a story that happens to be true. “The actual events of the play are not autobiographical,” insists playwright Lee-Anne Poole. “Besides the fact that, you know, I have experienced some of them.” She calls Splinters, opening at the Plutonium […]
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For the Common good
Julé Malet-Veale The Common director Dustin Harvey wants inside your head. Warning: You may feel totally self-conscious as a spray of water tickles your face, which is pressed against the metal fence surrounding the fountain in the Common. But the voice telling you to stand there is kind but firm in its instructions. Hold on […]
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Health scare: They Came from Eekum Seekum
This is not a real doctor or a zombie. He’s not even one of the cast, just some undead guy on the internet. If your doctor has been looking a little undead lately, there’s no need to be alarmed. Might be a mild case of method acting, getting ready for They Came from Eekum Seekum, […]
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Zuppa Theatre’s new play
We’re totally game for Zuppa Theatre’s Sport & Social fundraiser on Saturday night (the AARC at Armbrae Academy, 1400 Oxford, $5, 19+), especially when we heard about the pie-eating contest, with pies made special for the occasion by theatre moms and volunteers. “Everyone’s eyes really light up for that one,” says Zuppa’s Sue Leblanc Crawford. […]
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SuperNova: The Bone House
Is exercise anything that makes your heart beat fast? If so, The Bone House could be considered a first-class workout. It’s a very different kind of theatre experience, one that had people giggling nervously from the moment that “mind hunter” Eugene Crowley (Chris Fassbender) stepped on to the stage and flashed his wide, slightly creepy […]
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SuperNova: Piaf: Love Conquers All
Edith Piaf—or should I say Naomi Emmerson as Edith Piaf—played to a packed house at the opening night of the SuperNova Theatre Festival. The French singer’s story, from her impoverished beginnings through her superstardom to her sad descent to death, is played out in the one-woman show Piaf: Love Conquers All. The play is a […]
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Curtains open for Cloudburst
“I don’t know what form something will take when I start to write,” says Thom Fitzgerald, the award-winning filmmaker of movies such as The Hanging Garden, The Event and 3 Needles. “I start with a thought, and it usually becomes a bunch of dialogue…I just seem to write in dialogue.” This may explain why his […]
