Porn producer or popular playwright? According to Norm Foster, both of these offbeat careers have the potential to pay the bills. But for the past 27 years, Foster has been able to make his living at the more precarious of the two—writing plays. “The fact that I’ve been able to put my kids through school […]
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Slam dunk
Fresh off the win, Halifax’s spoken word team is now the two-time champ of the National SLAM Competition.
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Masked brothers
The room is cold and brutal. The buckets, the knives, the wooden block, the floor-to-ceiling tile all suggest we’re in a butcher’s shop, but this feels somehow more sinister, dangerous. It feels like the sort of room where very bad things happen. It is just the effect Anthony Black was hoping for. Black is director […]
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Sure Thing: Treaty Day
The Mi’kmaq community of Nova Scotia will gather in Halifax on October 1 to celebrate Treaty Day, commemorating the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1752. This treaty has great historical importance to both Mi’kmaq and non-Mi’kmaq communities within Nova Scotia, as it marks the day the Crown and the Mi’kmaq nation used treaties to settle […]
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What’s at the Fringe Festival?
2B (Or Not 2B) A.A. Amirault (Halifax). A bewitching, funny two-hander about the strange seduction of Franny—a once-promising visual artist specializing in the use of bodily fluids on canvas. Vanessa Walton-Bone as Franny gives a masterful, hilarious, in-character comic performance. (Graham Pilsworth) Comedy, 30min. Imperial Room, Neptune Theatre, Sat. Sept. 6, 3:45pm, 9pm; Sun. Sept. […]
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Fringing this year?
Tickets are available at the stage or up to one hour before the performance at the Fringe kiosk, which is located at Neptune Studio Theatre (1593 Argyle)—except for Sept. 2-4, when it moves to the Khyber ICA (1588 Barrington). Theatre times can change without notice so be sure to check the website for the final […]
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Eva Madden’s Game play
The air in Theatre Nova Scotia’s Agricola Street space is stuffy, which is what happens when people are staging faux swordfights between its modest walls for hours. Eva Madden, the director of Atlantic Fringe Festival entry The Confidence Game, instructs actors Joe McKibbon and Terry Coolen as Tobin and Roger. “The struggle that’s going on […]
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Sign of the times
Shawn Duggan is a student of body language. The local actor, who’s appeared in more than a dozen plays (mostly with local company Angels & Heroes), short films and TV, learned by getting on stage and in front of cameras. Next week he returns to Nova Scotia Community College’s waterfront campus in Dartmouth as a […]
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Atlantic Fringe Festival this week
2B (Or Not 2B)A.A. Amirault (Halifax). Frazzled Franny is looking for love in the wrong places. Comedy. Imperial Room, Neptune Theatre, 1593 Argyle, 7pm. $6 Songs From the PlaysA concert by Alastair Macdonald (Dartmouth). Cabaret, Khyber 3, 1588 Barrington, 8pm. $6 Belindance Greatest Hips!Halifax’s premiere belly dance troupe presents a feast for the eyes and […]
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Lesley Carvery dances like a star
In 1936, after returning from a sojourn in France, Josephine Baker starred in the prestigious Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. Among the reviewers was a New York Times critic who called her “a negro wench.” After her role in the production finished, Baker returned to France within a year and became one of its most beloved […]
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Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Open Concept Co-op has put together an outstanding cast for its production of Brad Fraser’s Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, a challenging and chilling look at the lives of several twenty-somethings as they grope their ways through various dark mazes of love and lust. Ian Mullan is brilliant as David, the […]
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Marissa Gough drawn to the flame
Marissa Gough has done comedy, slam poetry and burlesque, but she’d never thought of performing with fire until Ash Circle’s Ivan Bellari made her an offer. Gough, mohawked and travelling in the same pair of pants for weeks, was applying to be a cigarette girl at a cabaret. Bellari, a big guy smoking a cigar […]
