There are maybe a handful of times in your whole life when Pablo Escobar and God get to share a sentence, placeholders of equal weight in their respective creation myths—and the Halifax Fringe Show Hippoposthumous is one of them. A play examining the meaning of belonging through the lens of invasive species—particularly, the hippos now […]
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Fringe Fest 2021 review: LEGacy Interrupted
The biggest trick circus performers learn isn’t how to fold themselves in half or walk on stilts or scale two stories on a bolt of vertical, cascading fabric. It isn’t how to swing from a great height or do the splits, though LEGacy Circus’s Halifax Fringe Show features all these things. Nope, the biggest trick […]
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Fringe Fest 2021 review: A History of Lists
When Julia Schultz’s Dr. Preamble takes the stage at Neptune’s Scotiabank Theatre, she coughs a little, voice creaking as she welcomes the audience to this, her lecture on the “Listory of the Hist.” Silk-blend scarf over wool-blend sweater, turning in her sensible Mary Jane heels, Preamble is a few decades away from becoming someone akin […]
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The Bus Stops here
Things are busy at The Bus Stop Theatre the Monday afternoon before Halifax Fringe Festival begins. A fever pitch of activity—the doorway’s new ramp being tested for accessibility, a chorus of bandsaws roaring inside the lobby, ladders being carried hurriedly—crescendoes as the space prepares a soft reopening for the fest, its first spate of in-performances […]
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How to binge on Fringe
It’s been a hard run for the Halifax Fringe Festival: Last year’s event marched on in the face of an unprecedented time by pivoting to online and re-imagining the very foundations of the form. The year before that was just as formidable, though, with a hurricane hitting town the weekend of the fest—effectively cancelling dozens […]