Theatre

It’s almost as much fun watching the kids in the audience as it is watching Neptune’s colourful production of The Jungle Book. The youngsters—many of whom were rambunctious Beavers and Cubs—were simply mesmerised by the lush jungle set, the amusing costumes and the high-energy musical numbers. Lucas Meeuse, an actor whose face is a marvellous […]

SCENE: A condo in Toronto, Ontario. (Enter HANNAH MOSCOVITCH, a 33-year-old playwright whose ascent in Canadian theatre over the last six years has been meteoric. Recently, she’s written for CBC Radio One’s Afghanada, worked on nearly a dozen plays on the go, opened a play and had a script commissioned by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. […]

The Dal production of Blood Wedding draws you immediately in with a gorgeous scene of people making preparations for a celebration. But in this poetic tragedy by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, the celebration is not to be. There is bad blood between the two uniting families, and blood will be spilled in the end. […]

The Halifax Theatre for Young People—you know what kids are cool with? Rebranding!—presents a pair of two-handers best seen together. Glen J. Matthews and Doug MacAulay ably and sensitively anchor In the Fall as James and David, brothers barely in their teens in Cape Breton in the ’50s, while Kristen Slaney and Helena Pipe are […]

Love, lust and madness all intertwine in Eastern Front’s sensational new musical The Passion of Adèle Hugo. Written by David Overton with music by Zachary Florence and direction by Scott Burke, it’s the story of author Victor Hugo’s youngest daughter and her burning passion for a feckless soldier that pulls her from her Guernsey home […]

After viewing Robert Lendrum’s installation Living Documents (opening Thursday, November 3 at Eyelevel Gallery) you’ll be a bit closer to knowing him—or at least, a version of him. Lendrum uses a scientific approach to riff on ideas of identity, performance and memory. Partly a reaction to online surveys and profiles, the results are thought-provoking, awkward […]

Nothing is black and white in CU2morrow, the Doppler Effect’s ripped-from-the-headlines exploration of power, manipulation and free will in the internet age. Though loosely based on the Melchert-Dinkel “suicide nurse” case which involved a 49-year-old man masquerading as woman in online chat rooms in order to convince at-risk people to commit suicide while he watched […]

In the fjords of rural Norway, Annie Valentina and Michael McPhee raked grass, drank expensive beer, fenced and wrote—a lot. The pair, who make up The Doppler Effect, attended the International Theatre Lab retreat located in a schoolhouse in Norway, where they took theatre master classes, workshops and focused on their work while surrounded by […]

One woman commanding Neptune’s main stage for a full 90 minutes is a tall order, but Calgary actor Jan Alexandra Smith delivers beautifully. She gives a powerful and winning performance as Cathy Ostlere (author of the memoir and co-author of the play) a woman struggling with the loss at sea of her younger brother. The […]

In August of 1995, Cathy Ostlere’s brother David and his girlfriend set off on a voyage in a 27-foot sailboat, from the coast of Ireland to the Island of Madeira 1,200 miles away. It was a voyage that ended in mystery and tragedy. The story of the ill-fated journey was originally told by Ostlere in […]

Leave it to the creative minds at SBTS to bring to life a gothic tale that ranges from Transylvania to London and back again in tiny black box theatre and on a shoestring budget. The vampire in this show is a far cry from Twilight‘s sparkly, cold-as-ice Edward. David Patrick Flemming is a steamy Dracula […]

In August of 1995, Cathy Ostlere’s brother David and his girlfriend set off on a voyage in a 27-foot sailboat, from the coast of Ireland to the Island of Madeira 1,200 miles away. It was a voyage that ended in mystery and tragedy. The story of the ill-fated journey was originally told by Ostlere in […]