The newest production from CanCon devotee Matchstick Theatre is John Mighton’s The Little Years, directed by Matchstick’s artistic director Jake Planinc and starring Colleen MacIsaac and Christine Daniels. It follows the family of Kate (Kayla Gunn and MacIsaac), a girl who dreams of a career in theoretical mathematics, from 1957 to 2002, mainly through her […]
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Theatre review: The Woodcutter at the Bus Stop
Matchstick Theatre ventures deep into the forest with The Woodcutter, a play written by Don Hannah and helmed by its resident director Jake Planinc. An ambitious one-hander, the show rests on the performance of its only actor, Sébastien Labelle. Labelle surrenders himself entirely to the role of Ted, a man navigating the dark forest that […]
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Matchstick Theatre goes into the woods
The Woodcutter July 11-15, 8pm (and 2pm Sat-Sun) The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $20/$15 (students/seniors/unwaged) tickethalifax.com The premise of The Woodcutter is simple: A man, alone in the woods. “You’re not supposed to know whether he’s on the run or just hiking,” says director Jacob Planinc. “Is he a man who’s lost in the […]
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Review: Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes
In 1962, 18-year-old Peter Fechter was shot and killed by East German border guards while trying to cross into West Berlin. Jordan Tannahill’s 2014 play imagines the last hour of Fechter’s life as he lay dying from a gunshot wound at the Berlin Wall, reliving the decisions that brought him to this moment. Peter Sarty […]
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The year on stage
The Boat, Theatre New Brunswick Presented by TNB at Neptune’s Studio Theatre, Ryan Griffiths’ The Boat is an adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s beloved short story of the same name. It is a deeply affecting memory play about the lives of Cape Breton fisherman, beautifully written and impeccably acted here. Bone Cage, Matchstick Theatre A great […]
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Review: Bone Cage
Catherine Banks’s Governor General’s award-winning play Bone Cage is brought back to the Halifax stage by the intrepid Matchstick Theatre, and on the play’s tenth anniversary, no less. The story has its characters in rural Nova Scotia, a down-and-out bunch of young men and women, whose work is clearcutting the forest and mourning its wounds. Jamie […]
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Review: Bitter Rose
Rose is 43 years old, married, a mother, and has all the obvious fixings for a life that is content and fulfilling. And yet, she is unhappy, she is discontent, she is bitter in the way a lifetime accommodating demands and expectations can make someone bitter – especially, perhaps, a woman. In the moments we […]