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For Love Nor Money: Unexpected story of feminism and the pursuit of dreams set in 19th century N.S.

Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre opened its 38th season with the world premiere of For Love Nor Money, an historical drama by Antigonish writer Laura Teasdale. Its eight-day run in a FAST/Mulgrave Road Theatre co-production wrapped up Saturday, with both a matinee and evening performance. Mulgrave Road Theatre commissioned Teasdale, who co-wrote FAST’s outdoor Robin Hood with FAST’s artistic director Andrea Boyd, and developed the script with a view to staging […]

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Viva la Vida with Quixote!

Two Planks and a Passion Theatre’s playful, poignant take on Don Quixote is full of Spanish music, comic misadventure and awesome puppetry. Nobody will leave the lush green outdoor stage at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, near Canning, without loving the puppet incarnations of a donkey, a horse and a scene-stealing lion. The errant knight’s beloved steed, Rocinate, is a giant constructed horse’s head but so beautifully manipulated […]

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Luckily, “Fish and Dicks” to be restaged: delightful, heartfelt comedy about Brier Island and more

Fish and Dicks: Case Files from the Digby Neck & Islands Fish-Gutting Service & Detective Agency, by Kathy France, is a wonderful new addition to the canon of Nova Scotia plays celebrating place and people with humour, heart and song. In this case it’s Brier Island at the end of Digby Neck in a brilliantly-twinned tale of a woman’s struggle with loss and the comic capers of two island salts […]

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