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A Wonderful “Dream” You’ve Never Had Before

I’ve never liked Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; he’s often an irritating, high-energy boy flitting about like Peter Pan. Enter Walter Borden, 82, in an elegant, glittering emerald coat and hat, rolling his wonderful, sonorous voice around Shakespeare’s gorgeous language, not rushing it but luxuriating in it, finding the humour, the pace, the perfect articulation. It’s a brilliant piece of casting and just one of director Jeremy Webb’s inspired […]

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N.S. 2024 Merritt Award Nominees hail from Parrsboro to Sydney

Fall on Your Knees, the epic six-hour co-production by Neptune Theatre and the National Arts Centre, among others, of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel by Hannah Moscovitch, and Downed Hearts, a new play staged at Ship’s Company Theatre, Parrsboro, by N.S. Governor General’s award-winner Catherine Banks, dominate this year’s list of Merritt theatre award nominees. However, most of the province’s major players including Festival Antigonish Summer Theatre, The Villains Theatre, Shakespeare by […]

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