I n the odd and moving The Realistic Joneses, on until this weekend at the Park Place Theatre, one married couple moves in next door to another. Jennifer (Kathryn MacLellan) and Bob (Christian Murray) are dealing with his rare terminal illness (well, she is, he’s fading into nothing). Pony (Gil Anderson) and John (Matthew Lumley) […]
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Twelfth Night moves
Twelfth Night To August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park $20 suggested donation tickethalifax.com Twenty-five years ago, nearly on a whim, Shakespeare By The Sea put up Twelfth NIght for a week in Point Pleasant Park. Last weekend the company opened the production for its fourth time, in honour of that anniversary. But there are […]
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Review: Macbeth: The Shadow King
Macbeth is arguably the best play about ambition written in English. It’s been performed for centuries, and will hold relevance as long as humans behave the way they do—which is to say, as long as people seek power for power’s sake, audiences will see those people in these characters. It is a cathartic experience, to […]
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Got Milk Wood?
Under Milk Wood begins in darkness. The sonorous voice of Jeremy Webb calls the audience into the dreams of a sleeping village with Dylan Thomas’s playful, soulful, saturated poetry. This “play for words” encompasses an entire day in the life of the village folk, who dream and gossip and lust and love. Susan Stackhouse and […]