Chess with the Doomsday Machine To February 7 Alderney Landing Theatre WHO HE IS I grew up in a theatre family—my dad had a company and my mother performed, I grew up in that environment, ended up in Canada and did theatre studies at Dalhousie. Maggie [Stewart, OneLight’s managing director] and I started the company […]
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Best Theatre Impressario
“Impressario” is a term that doesn’t really resonate with Shahin Sayadi. He just does what he does, pursuing his muse. “I appreciate the coverage and the recognition,” says Sayadi, modestly. His theatre company, OneLight, has earned its recognition. It’s been operating since 1999—Sayadi’s wife Maggie Stewart is OneLight’s managing director—and will soon launch its ninth […]
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OneLight Theatre’s Terror within
“We are all affected by war, whether we realize it or not,” says Shahin Sayadi, artistic director of Halifax’s OneLight Theatre. “It influences so much, from the price of food and gas, to our connections with soldiers who go and come back, or who go and don’t. “And since 9/11, we are all forced to […]
