Just in time for dark nights of swirling leaves, Neptune Theatre is staging Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, a seriously-crafted piece of silliness and a wild comic ride through Bram Stoker’s classic tale. The 90-minute romp, on the main stage through Oct. 25, stars Allie MacDonald in an unforgettable, chest-baring performance as an over-sexed, vainglorious Dracula with beautiful hair and an inability to pronounce “w” as anything other than “v.” […]
Women of the Fur Trade is an amazing, multi-layered, 110-minute satire with a hot emotional core around land, love and loss. It’s a delightful feminist twist on history and an insight into a conflict over land and culture that very much reverberates today. Running without intermission at Neptune’s studio theatre until Oct. 11, the play by Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright Frances Koncan is so funny you are unaware of its […]
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 […]
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 […]
