Sarah Ruhl is one of the best American playwrights working today, and Virginia Woolf is one of the best English writers of all time. Their forces combined make Orlando, a stage adaptation of Woolf’s fantastical 1928 novel, a masterful experiment. Director Matthew Thomas Walker, with the company of Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts fourth […]
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Prism
Exhibit 411, Northwood, 2615 Northwood Terrace “A lot of the work I do is movement-based,” says Alexis Milligan, the choreographer, actor, director and creator of Transitus, a theatre company that aims to explore how art is used as a communication tool. “Stillness, silence: How do we find those places where communications begin?” For Nocturne Milligan […]
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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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DaPoPo’s Live-In travels across artistic lines
DaPoPo Theatre’s Live-In To Oct 31 Full schedule at facebook.com/DaPoPoTheatre With its net cast wider than ever, DaPoPo Theatre’s Live-In Festival is nine years old and going strong. “In contrast to previous years, we have curated a little less but opened the doors wider,” says Garry Williams, DaPoPo’s artistic director. This year’s festival theme is […]
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Review: Seeds
Seeds is a documentary play that explores the four-year legal battle between Monsanto and Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer who the corporation took to court after a crop from their patented seed was found on his land. The play questions notions of the rights of corporations to patent a living thing, and the public’s acceptance […]
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22 theatre productions to warm up your fall
SEEDS Corner Gas star Eric Peterson delivers this true tale of a small-time farmer accused of planting patented seeds from a major agriculture corporation. A true David and Goliath story, this play revisits the standoff using actual court transcripts. Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street, To Oct 1 FIVE BY FIVE If the end of the […]
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Halifax Fringe 2017 – Day 10
Halifax Fringe has come and gone for another year, but here are some final reviews from the last day of the festival. A Feebleminded Dictator By Brittny Rebhuhn, Kate Tobie, and Eric Johnston Perhaps the strangest Fringe offering this year, A Feebleminded Dictator is a shadow play about two women and their tyrannical matriarch. Mantis […]
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Halifax Fringe 2017 – Day 9
An Evening (Give or Take) of Mediuming, with Bud Hunter By Bud Hunter Long-term Fringe fixture Bud Hunter (he’s had a show in the Festival for most of the last ten years) is a bit of a “controversial” figure. His performances have been mostly poorly attended and he’s received bad reviews from some of the […]
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Halifax Fringe 2017 – Day 8
The ReturnBy David Woods Playwright and director David Woods introduced his dark family drama at the Bus Stop by addressing the audience with a laugh: “I guess I’m getting pretty old. Someone said to me: ‘I remember your first play on Gottingen 20 years ago.’” The Dartmouth artist and writer founded Voices Black Theatre Ensemble […]
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Halifax Fringe 2017 – Day 7
“Perk Up, Pianist!” By Sarah Hagen Sarah Hagen’s Perk Up, Pianist! was one of my favourite shows of the 2016 Fringe Festival and I was glad to see it on this year’s schedule. It’s a wonderful mixture of virtuoso piano playing and charmingly puerile humour. Renowned concert pianist Hagen can be seen in more formal, traditionally […]
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Binge-read about Fringe
Here it is: Your guide to the 28th Halifax Fringe Festival of indie theatre—with advice for newbies, hot ticket picks and heaps of play reviews. First off, let’s get you primed on several of this year’s shows. Heritage Minutes Live! by Conor Purdy Touched by Too Many Angels by Adam Myatt Stop Kiss by Diana […]
