Offering up a Communion to be thankful for are director Linda Moore and her trio of talented actors Stephanie MacDonald, Kathryn MacLellan and Jenny Munday.
Neptune Studio Theatre’s Studio Series continued this past week with a fantastic presentation of Daniel MacIvor’s play Communion, presented as a co-production with new theatre company Kazan Co-op.
I was blown away by the power of the performances. The three women in this show have created masterful, nuanced, emotive characters that elevate this production head and shoulders above most of what I’ve seen recently. Jenny Munday is simply sublime as Leda, a woman coming to terms with her rocky past in her last few months of life.
From beautiful lighting, a creative set, right through to these three powerhouse actors (Munday shares the stage with Stephanie MacDonald and Kathryn MacLellan) Communion is a lighthouse of theatrical skill in a stormy sea of mediocrity.
Communion, directed by Linda Moore, closes tonight (Feb 19th) and you still have two chances to see it at Neptune. Don’t waste those chances.
There was a Fiddler On The Roof of Halifax’s Metro Centre last week. Why, oh why does the Metro Centre keep attempting to present theatrical shows? I wish they would accept it; they are an arena: perfect for games and big concerts. Leave theatre to the theatres.
Fiddler was probably a good show, but there’s no way I can tell. The stage was the size of a small portable TV way in the distanc, with a 200-foot gap between the front section of audience and us at the back. I didn’t see an actor’s face all night and the sound was far, far away. A major disappointment for $60 a ticket?
I may as well have been sitting, with the fiddler, on the Metro Centre roof!
The relief of the night was taking in drinks and desert at the delicious Barrington Street sweet-spot, The Middle Spoon. We had an early Valentine’s Day celebration and if you like to feel your stresses slip away into a sumptuous sugar-coma then my advice is take a loved one to this new specialty restaurant.
The staff were as sweet as the cheesecake and chocolate lava cake we consumed. Date night just became a little easier to plan.
Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator at AGNS and Mark Bursey, Chair of the AGNS Board of Governors pose next to a piece of the Material World exhibit at AGNS last week.
Stop@Forever’s emerging artist Lisa Lipton (centre) with two of her performance-artists Laura Peek (left) and Jessica Lewis (right.) at AGNS’s multi-opening last week.
I was invited to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (read: ordered to get my British ‘keyster’ down there!) to attend not one, but four exhibitions opening in one night at an exclusive members-only event! AGNS never does anything by half measures!
I could only pop by for 20 minutes, so managed to catch some of the Emerging Artist Series: Lisa Lipton’s Stop@Forever show. Lipton incorporated live performance into her work at the gallery, with the VIP’s pausing in their chatter and hors d’oeuvres consumption to enjoy seven presentations of song on the AGNS lobby staircase.
The other shows opening that night were Material World, Kekina’masuti Nemitekemk Nktuey Mijua’jijk: Through Children’s Eyes and Reinvention: The Art and Life of HM Rosenberg.
Now if only someone would tell me what my ‘keyster’ is!
The cast of Pluto’s Playthings , with their clothes back on: Naomi-Joy Blackhall-Butler, Mike McLeod, Annie Valentina and Stewart Legere,
I got so far off the leash this week when I took in Plutonium Plauhouse’s Sex Festival, that I thought I was lost forever. The fest is a collection of erotic, horny, anguished and languid performances running until February 27th. I caught Pluto’s Playthings (a sexy amalgam of burlesque and cabaret) featuring a talented, brave and sometimes naked quartet of risqué performers Stewart Legere, Annie Valentina, Naomi-Joy Blackhall-Butler and Mike McLeod.
Pasties, peppers, penis and a grand piano; what more could you ask for on a chilly Thursday in February?
Well, a bus home would have been nice!
To invite Jeremy Webb to go ‘off the leash’ at your event, opening or party contact him at offtheleash@herald.ca, follow him on Twitter @offtheleashhfx, or find his website offtheleash.ca
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Jessica Lewis, Victoria Parker and Laura Peek sing in he lobby of AGNS as part of artist Lisa Lipton’s work last week.
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Sarah Fillmore, Chief Curator at AGNS and Mark Bursey, Chair of the AGNS Board of Governors pose next to a piece of the Material World exhibit at AGNS last week.
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Stop@Forever’s emerging artist Lisa Lipton (centre) with two of her performance-artists Laura Peek (left) and Jessica Lewis (right.) at AGNS’s multi-opening last week.
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Offering up a Communion to be thankful for are director Linda Moore and her trio of talented actors Stephanie MacDonald, Kathryn MacLellan and Jenny Munday.
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The cast of Pluto’s Playthings , with their clothes back on: Naomi-Joy Blackhall-Butler, Mike McLeod, Annie Valentina and Stewart Legere,
