A mix of Inception meets Fawlty Towers, the farcical play within a play within a play Noises Off is a layered hybrid of classic slapstick and dry British comedy. Directed by Jeremy Webb, Neptune Theatre brings Michael Frayn’s work—a comical marathon nearly three hours long—to life thanks to a busload of manic energy provided by its […]
Mary-Colin Chisholm
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Theatre review: Some Blow Flutes at the Bus Stop
Note: This review is based on a preview performance. Some Blow Flutes is the latest creation of HomeFirst Theatre’s artistic director, Mary Vingoe. It follows the struggle of teenage Leah Frangoulis (Ailsa Galbreath) caring for Elena (Mary-Colin Chisholm), her elderly grandmother whose dementia is progressing to an unmanageable state. Meanwhile, her denial-ridden grandfather Costas (Hugh […]
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Review: Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary at Neptune
Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sugar Mary is the story of Sugar Mary (Geneviève Steele) a “half-cracked” woman living in rural Nova Scotia with her sister, Yewina (Sharleen Kalayil). Sugar Mary’s sexual awakening coincides with the arrival of Scott (Christian Murray), an American grad student looking for local folklore for his thesis. Steele and Kalayil command […]
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Ship’s Company Theatre announces 2018 season
Ship’s Company Theatre announced its upcoming slate on Saturday in Parrsboro. “This is going to be a season with plays by two women and a young African Nova Scotian,” says Ship’s artistic director Natasha MacLellan. Kicking off the season July 4 will be Hook, Line and Sinner, the final part of the Sister Salter trilogy […]
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Neptune Theatre announces 2018/19 season
Neptune Theatre, under the guidance of new AD Jeremy Webb, announced its 2018/19 slate this afternoon with its annual lunch at Fountain Hall. The summer season will kick off July 3 with The Argyle Street Kitchen Party, while the season proper bows with Shakespeare in Love (Sep 4-Oct 7) and closes with The Color Purple (Apr […]
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Best Female Theatre Actor
Gold Winner Stephanie MacDonald Silver Winner Susan LeBlanc Bronze Winner Mary Colin Chisholm Stephanie MacDonald spent the past year performing alone and in ensembles, down in Wolfville, on Gottingen Street and over at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival in productions as disparate as Lee-Anne Poole’s queer comedy Short Skirt Butch, the fact-based drama Watching […]
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Theatre review: He’d Be Your father’s Mother’s Cousin
Cape Breton lite. That’s how Mary-Colin Chisholm describes the culture and characters from Antigonish in her introduction to her one-woman show He’d Be You Father’s Mother’s Cousin. (Well, it’s actually a one-woman, one fiddler, and one “adequate” foley artist show.) In the show, Chisholm channels a tart-tongued gramma, a slightly catty and very chatty mother, […]