Les Kurkendaal is a professional Fringer, the sort of performer who creates a show and winds around the world with it, stopping at every Fringe Festival in every city along the way. “I am a storyteller but I tell comedic, autobiographic stories,” he adds, speaking by phone from his home in L.A. This year’s Halifax […]
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Christy Sanford’s Entangled heart
Entangled August 30 and September 7, 7:30pm Studio in Essence, 1535 Dresden Row #203, pwyc Christy Sanford takes our emotions to new heights in Entangled. The spine-twisting, gravity-defying, award-winning Sanford—also known by her punny stage name SpiraLynn—is an aerial acrobat who spends a lot of time dangling high above her audiences. She has tons of […]
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For the love of Fringe
Once a year, during that in-between-time of ever-crisper days that still warrant sunscreen, the city stirs. Posters for plays and one-person-shows begin papering poles. Streamers billow out of the mouth of forgotten places like the Old Company House. Professional performing artists present their pet projects that are too out there for anywhere else. They share […]
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Subscribing to Women’s Issues
Women’s Issues Sep 5-7, 8pm The Pit, University of King’s College, 6350 Coburg Road $8/$5 The certain election of a certain president puzzled writer/director Katie Clarke on both a logical and emotional level: “I go to King’s, and there’s so much conversation there about identity and taking up space. I started researching women who voted […]
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Troy Ginter’s Great Kettle for the People is an ode to small-town Nova Scotia
Great Kettle for the People Sat, Sep 7, 6:35pm The Old Company House Theatre, 2202 Gottingen Street Meet Troy Ginter. He was born in Halifax and grew up in Cape Breton, but he’s lived all over: he taught English in Busan and fixed airplanes in Sault Ste. Marie. He’s married and has a three-year-old daughter. […]
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T. Roy’s Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act draws the ugly face of the military industrial complex
Building 17: A Conspiracy In One Act Fri Sep 6, 6:45pm Sat Sep 7, 7:30pm Sun Sep 8, 12:20pm & 5:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre 2203 Gottingen Street PWYC T. Roy remembers watching TV as the Berlin Wall fell. “You could feel the emotion of people trying to break down barriers and it was of […]
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Gillian English battles the bard with 10 Things I Hate about The Taming of the Shrew
10 Things I Hate about The Taming of the Shrew Thu Sept 5, 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 4:30pm; Sat Sep 7, 7pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $15/$12 “My brand is feminism and anger,” says Gillian English. “I’m feminism and anger.” English is a brilliant, hilarious, award-winning, solo-show-performing Fringe favourite. She speaks fast. She is […]
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Celia Rossiter debates Sex Before Marriage?
Sex Before Marriage? Thu Sept 5, 8:15pm Fri Sept 6, 9:25pm Sat Sept 7, 6:30pm Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle Street $5/$3 Cue Salt-N-Pepa: Celia Rossiter wants us to talk about sex. Rossiter attended Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts. She dabbled in acting and directing with SMUDS. And, she appeared in Harbourtown by Mark Foster […]
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Colleen MacIsaac’s mercury explores communication and loneliness
mercury Thu Sept 5, 9:30pm Fri Sept 6, 5pm Sat Sept 7, 2pm & 11:20pm Neptune Theatre 1593 Argyle Street $8/$5 Colleen MacIsaac sidles into a Quinpool Road coffee shop, bowtie matching her combat boots in a perfect, non-navy-shade of dark blue. She sits down with an iced coffee and so much energy she hardly […]
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Giant Killer Shark: the Musical will sink its Jaws into you.
Giant Killer Shark: the Musical Sat Sep 7, 11am & 8:45pm; Sun Set 8, 2:55pm & 10pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $13/$10 Amanda Mullally has always had a flair for the dramatic. The co-star of Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, a comedic reworking of Jaws, recalls a PEI childhood heavy with dramaturgy: […]
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The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail blends live music and shadow puppetry
The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail Thu Sep 5, 1pm & 8:30pm; Fri Sep 6, 8pm; Sat Sep 7, 6pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street $10/$7 Logan Robins tells people that it was a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors that saw the writer-director’s interest spark in puppets, but, in fact, […]
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Rebecca Wolfe mixes Julia Child and Betty Draper with Penny
Penny Sat Sept 7, 4pm & 10:05pm Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage $10/$7 Rebecca Wolfe wrote, produced and stars in Penny, a quirky, kitschy, darkly comedic glimpse into the life of a 1950s housewife who lives a Betty Crocker dream, cooking her husband’s favourite meals before a studio audience. This is Wolfe’s first time appearing at […]