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TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
1M ago
At the end of the First Act of Fall On Your Knees Part 1: Family Tree, an adaptation of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s bestselling novel by Hannah Moscovitch now playing at Neptune Theatre, I turned to my friend beside me and breathlessly ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
When I was twelve years old a Young Neptune tour came to my school. I had already been bitten by the theatre bug, so I was stoked regardless, but I remember that one of the performers stood out to me ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
A theatrical adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit (1937) is an ambitious undertaking regardless of the production, but it is even more impressive to see the tale come to life through the work of Neptune Theatre School’s YPCo ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
Films don’t always translate well to the theatre, but Calendar Girls, based on the Miramax Motion Picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth, does make a compelling and sweet play. It succeeds largely because the story is so rooted in ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
A new play is being staged at The Pit Theatre by the King’s Theatrical Society. Katie Clarke’s Will You Taste Our Blood mixes Euripides’ The Bacchae with a contemporary story of three friends in their early twenties navigating through various ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
There are nine powerhouse women performing in Neptune Theatre’s production of Calendar Girls, based on the Miramax Motion Picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth, which opens on March 6, 2020. I had the opportunity to sit down with three ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is fortunate to have U.N.I.T Productions’ Morro and Jasp: Save the Date at the Highland Arts Theatre in Sydney this weekend. Morro and Jasp are clown sisters played by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
The hottest theatre ticket in Halifax lately is for Andrea Scott’s play Controlled Damage, which has been essentially sold out since before it opened at Neptune Theatre’s Scotiabank Studio Theatre on February 4th, 2020. This World Premiere, presented by Neptune ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
Steady Theatre’s production of James Reaney’s play Listen to the Wind (1972) is the exact opposite of what a lot of Contemporary Canadian Theatre seeks to be: it is not short, it is not sleek and sharply polished, and it ..read more
TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog
2M ago
For Heather McGuigan, who plays Cathy in Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle The Last Five Years at Neptune Theatre, Opening Night was an almost twenty year dream coming to fruition. “I first heard the cast recording the day the CD ..read more