Theatre New Brunswick has just announced its offerings for the new 2016-2017 season, all of which has been planned keeping in mind a central, challenging question: “How can we change?” Continue reading TNB Announces New Season And New Ambitions
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In Review: Off the Leash Production’s ‘The Belle of Amherst’
Robin Hebb sparkles as Emily Dickinson in Off The Leash‘s production of The Belle of Amherst directed by Jeremy Webb. Fourth walls be damned—pull up a chair and a cuppa and tuck in to some of your friend Emily’s famous black cake. She talks a lot and gets lost in her own stories, but it’s all part of the charm of the non-linear existence of a writer.
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In Review: NFTC’s ‘Cocaine Plane!’
The boundaries of time and space are suspended in this intriguing production. Cocaine Plane!, written by local first time playwright Emily Bossé and directed by Jake Martin, tells the stories of eight people—two teenage girls, two struggling lovers, two stoners, and two Columbian drug lords—and their varied and oddly connected reactions to an event that put Fredericton on the map, or at least in the New York Times. Continue reading In Review: NFTC’s ‘Cocaine Plane!’
In Review: Theatre New Brunswick’s ‘Marion Bridge’
Theatre New Brunswick‘s production of Daniel MacIvor’s Marion Bridge tells the story of three estranged sisters, Agnes (Kim Parkhill), Theresa (Michelle Polak), and Louise (Jackie Torrens), who are reunited when they return to Cape Breton to care for their mother on her deathbed. Continue reading In Review: Theatre New Brunswick’s ‘Marion Bridge’
In Review: Saint John Theatre Company’s ‘Noises Off’
Saint John Theatre Company’s production of Noises Off opens a can of sardines and takes audience members on a chaotic adventure of life behind the curtain. Continue reading In Review: Saint John Theatre Company’s ‘Noises Off’