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MAR 9, 2010

THEATRE

Trelawny Of the Wells: A Must See

Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 04.1.09 at 9:59am.

Dalhousie Theatre Productions’ staging of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s 1898 play Trelawny Of the Wells is just about the best thing I’ve ever seen by the regions’s largest post-secondary drama school.

It’s a beautifully measured rendering of a classic by an unfairly neglected playwright who once d... Read More.

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The Witch Of Edmonton: Astonishing theatre by any measure

Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 10.16.08 at 11:10am.

Dal Theatre Productions has kicked off its new season with a startling staging of the rarely seen 1621 macabre drama The Witch Of Edmonton, by Dekker, Ford and Rowley.

Director Roberta Barker’s remarkably restrained production sports two choral interludes of unison hymn sings (accompanied by f... Go to Ron's blog or Read More.

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Shakespeare By the Sea's Othello: Tense and Strong

Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 08.10.08 at 7:17pm.

Seeing Shakespeare By the Sea deliver a compact, conventional staging of the Bard's challenging late tragedy Othello is like watching a lion slowly stalk its prey for 90 minutes before it finally strikes and devours it in the final half hour.

Shorn of contemporary pop-culture references and ma... Go to Ron's blog or Read More.

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A Midsummer Night's Magic

Submitted by Ron Foley Macdonald on 07.29.08 at 4:49pm.

There was a huge crowd at Shakespeare By the Sea’s latest production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Point Pleasant Park Sunday Night.

And there should be. It’s a wonderful production, thoughtfully reconsidered by director Jesse MacLean. There’s a bit less earthy repartee and more high-school-... Go to Ron's blog or Read More.

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