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 […]
Two Planks and a Passion Theatre creates a magical, unforgettable experience with its fireside shows as people sit encircling actors who themselves encircle a roaring fire. The flames are the only source of light and as you look into the orange flickering shadows your imagination is lit by a timeless story. The occasional flitting bat adds to the magic. Chased by The Bear, a spellbinding musical re-telling of Shakespeare’s The […]
Deepwater is a gripping, powerful mystery about a female detective trying to unravel the disappearance of a child over four years ago. Psychological, philosophical and poetic, this new play by The Villains Theatre’s Dan Bray is a departure for the author of often comic, classically-derived plays like the popular super-hero Knight of the Bat series. Set in Kempt Shore, N.S., the play opens with an experienced investigator, Questa (Liliona Quarmyne), […]
I didn’t see the Lord of the Rings movies so I didn’t know who Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd were apart from the stars in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now enjoying a soldout run at Neptune Theatre. But now, having seen this epic, existential play, I know what they are: fantastic British stage and film actors, as well as longtime friends, who bring an absurdist duo that would make […]
The Last Show On Earth™! is an absurd, high-colour, funny yet compassionate story about the apocalypse told through a queer lens. Writer Breton Lalama, who played Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show at Neptune, started writing the play as they were coming out as trans and “…that felt a death of sorts, which made me start thinking about all the millions of little deaths, or world endings, that we […]
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