Mocean Dance has something special in store for this weekend. A trio, a duet and a solo dance are on the lineup for Ordinary Rebels, Mocean’s mainstage show at Neptune’s Studio Theatre. Even the title of the show has a tense energy. “We felt the dichotomy of ‘ordinary’ and ‘rebels’ is a reflection of dance […]
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Final weekend to get this Messenger
It’s no surprise that opening night of Messenger at the Neptune Studio brought out a huge cross-section of Halifax’s theatre greats and political progressives. After all, the play was written by award-winning playwright and former MP Wendy Lill. Her credentials put her in the perfect position to deliver both a beautifully written family drama and […]
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Leaving Wonderland has arrived
Some of the themes in Leaving Wonderland may be ripped from the headlines, but there is nothing sensationalized about Shelley’s Thompson’s heart-touching play. This story of grief and growth is firmly rooted in truths about the complexity of relationships. The story begins with a college professor and successful author named Jane (Geneviève Steele) berating two […]
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Way into OUTeast
It’s a Netflix world, but OUTeast Queer Film Festival producer Andria Wilson suggests ditching the couch for a theatre seat once in awhile, “I was at [Toronto LGBT fest] Inside Out, watching Tab Hunter Confidential,” she says. “I was alone, sitting next to strangers, and on one side of me was this older couple, two […]
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In a HIFF
The Halifax Independent Filmmakers’ Festival has a local focus, but festival director Nelson MacDonald says you’d be wrong to assume that priority is a kind of parochialism. “I feel no obligation to show local films,” says MacDonald. “I show local films because they’re good.” In addition to two programs of local short films, the June […]
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Neptune Theatre launches 2015/2016 season
Neptune Theatre‘s 2015/16 season launch was announced yesterday, and yes, there is a Shrek musical. Now in its 53rd season, Neptune’s lineup includes six productions as part of the Fountain Hall series, and three in the Studio series. There are also four “bonus features”: Hank Williams Live – 1952 October 9-11, brought to life by […]
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The Cave Painter goes deep
“How could you not want to understand the world?” That question, asked by an aging, questing artist named Dianne, is a central one to The Cave Painter, Don Hannah’s one-woman show about art, religion, love, loss and growing old. The atheist, bohemian Dianne (played by Jenny Munday) is facing life alone after her fundamentalist Christian […]
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Death becomes her
A Good Death To January 18 at 7:30pm (Thu-Sat), 2pm (Sat-Sun) Neptune Studio Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $25/$20 Kim Parkhill isn’t sleeping so well lately. As both playwright and producer for A Good Death, currently playing at the Neptune Studio Theatre, she’s got a lot on her mind. “I’ve discovered sleeplessness accompanies most of my […]
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Last Christmas
A Christmas Carol Dec 26, 2pm & 7:30pm Neptune Studio Theatre 1593 Argyle Street $18-$25 902-429-7070 In a very Haligonian turn of events, what began in 2003 as a make-your-own-work project for Jeremy Webb—a one-man version of The Christmas Carol—became 11 years, nearly 500 performances and a holiday theatre tradition. “I’d done the Neptune show […]
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It is Solved by Walking
It is Solved by Walking is a journey into the mind and heart of a 53-year-old woman named Margaret (Ruth Lawrence) who’s struggling to unearth the roots of her failed marriage and her thwarted dream of becoming a poet. She has the help of an unusual muse: the dead American poet Wallace Stevens (Hugh Thompson), […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 10
So ho, by so ★★★★ This play took me by surprise. It’s a rich, layered theatre experience that delivers an emotional punch in only 15 minutes. So ho, by so takes the Jacobean comedy The Birth of Merlin as its starting point, but viewers don’t need to be familiar with either Arthurian legend or 17th […]
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Fringe Binge 2014: Day 9
Broadway the 13th ★★★½ This show is a high-energy showcase that strings together a series of favourite hits from stage musicals with a slight but cute plot. Four young actors (played by Lena Andriani, Becca Guilderson, Marietta Laan and Taylor Long) venture to a cabin in the woods to write a musical, only to find […]