The energy before a dress rehearsal is always a little bit frantic. Nothing starts on time as lights, sound, and costumes get adjusted, performers confirm their places, and the director scans the room for anything out of place. Then the lights go down, and the heightened silence fills the room with anticipation. Xara Choral Theatre […]
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The year on stage
The Boat, Theatre New Brunswick Presented by TNB at Neptune’s Studio Theatre, Ryan Griffiths’ The Boat is an adaptation of Alistair MacLeod’s beloved short story of the same name. It is a deeply affecting memory play about the lives of Cape Breton fisherman, beautifully written and impeccably acted here. Bone Cage, Matchstick Theatre A great […]
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Xara’s The Hours Turn to Nothing shows unity
The Hours Turn to Nothing St. Matthew’s United Church 1479 Barrington Street Apr 28, 8pm & Apr 29, 2:30pm & 8pm $23/$28 xara.ca/tickets “I purposely didn’t name any of the ‘characters’ within the narrative,” says author Ami McKay, speaking on the inter-disciplinary choral performance, The Hours Turn to Nothing, that she has written in collaboration […]
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Review: The Hours Turn to Nothing
Xara Choral Theatre is known for combining choral music, choreography, and storytelling for an eclectic style of performance. With The Hours Turn To Nothing, the massively talented group of young women have joined forces with novelist Ami McKay to tell the story of midwives who came to Halifax to care for many women who went […]
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Fatty Legs’ unbreakable spirit
It’s been almost four years since Xara Choral Theatre presented a version of Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s children’s book, Fatty Legs, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Halifax. Anyone who saw it then can attest to its beauty and power. “The reception Fatty Legs got in 2011 was overwhelming,” recalls Xara’s co-artistic […]