Aquarius Written and performed by François Macdonald Directed by Sunny Drake Aquarius is a tender one-act solo performance that follows two men in 1975 caught in a firebombed Montreal bathhouse. The two men have just met, one is closeted, the other is proudly homosexual. Their interactions begin with the meet-cute dynamic of a romantic comedy, […]
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Queer Acts picks
Queer Acts Theatre Festival July 13-16 The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com Queer Acts’ line-up is culturally and creatively diverse, making for a wide-ranging, multiple format look at queerness small and large, personal and universal, across the festival’s four days. Highlights include: fried The multi-disciplinary artist Jade Byard Peek, who curated February’s […]
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It’s good to be King of Berlin
King of Berlin July 13-15, 7pm & July 16, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $15+fees tickethalifax.com The Weimar era of Germany encompassed a cultural renaissance sandwiched between the two World Wars, where art and intellect reigned until Hitler rose to power in 1933. (Cabaret is a great example.) It’s the inspiration and partial setting […]
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A round of applause for this summer’s theatre round-up
June 1-24 Theatre Arts Guild presents Double Indemnity The Billy Wilder version of James M. Cain’s book is a film noir classic, and was turned into a radio play in the ’40s. Based on a famous murder in New York in 1927, it manages to turn an insurance policy into a thrilling plot point awash […]
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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 […]
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The Halifax Fringe Festival wants you to come off the beaten track
Cinq à Sept at Good Robot June 1, 5-7pm Good Robot Brewing The Atlantic Fringe Festival is going into its 27th year with a new name: The Halifax Fringe Festival. Executive director Lee-Anne Poole believes it will better represent the event, which she calls “one of the city’s biggest festivals that a lot of people […]
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Review: Art
The story of Art is this: a wealthy, sophisticated white man buys a very expensive white painting, and his wealthy, sophisticated white friend is very upset about it. A third guy, more goofy than sophisticated but no less white, joins them and is the butt of all their jokes. This is Yasmina Reza’s award-winning 1994 […]
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Review: The Archive of Missing Things
A shroud of mystery surrounds Zuppa’s latest theatrical foray. Not so much a play as an interactive game, The Archive of Missing Things is experienced alone at a computer in Dalhousie’s Killam Library. The library is open during the show, so students walk around, as do the actors. We are told many times by a […]
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Review: TreeGirl and The West Woods
TreeGirl TreeGirl is the latest play from Haligonian writer Meghan Hubley. The story follows Laurel (Keelin Jack) a palliative care nurse who is haunted by her former patient Audrey (Martha Irving) and so climbs up a tree to contemplate life and be somewhere “new”. Crossing Laurel’s path on his way to the cemetery is Audrey’s […]
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Review: Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story
2b Theatre’s latest show tells the true story of the playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s great-grandparents who came to Canada from Romania in 1908. The beloved Ben Caplan is at the helm of the play, guiding the evening along with story and song, leading to flashbacks performed out of a shipping container-turned magnificent modular set. Mary Fay […]
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Missing + you
The Archive of Missing Things May 15-27 Dalhousie Killam Library 6225 University Avenue, $25-$30 stages.tickethalifax.com Dalhousie’s Killam Library is the setting for Zuppa Theatre’s latest creation, The Archive of Missing Things, the company’s first new show in two years. Described as an “ambient drama,” it’s part-game and part-live performance, where audience members are given tablets and […]
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Ten rockin’ weekend picks
10 Free Comic Book Day Saturday Giant Robot celebrates Free Comic Book Day—and their sixth anniversary—with an equally giant cake and bins of free comics. 9 The Common Link: A Jane’s Walk Saturday A citizen-led stroll through some of the peninsula’s best patches of grass, this walk is part of the citizen-led Jane’s Walks that […]
