Theatre UNB is concluding the semester for their Drama 2173 class with ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca,’ a double-feature of plays by Eugene Ionesco, the Romanian-French playwright best known for his pioneering work in the genre of the Theatre of the Absurd. Focusing on the surreal, the inexplicable, and the outrageous, director Len Falkenstein selected two of Ionesco’s early works, ‘Jack, or the Submission‘ and ‘The Bald Soprano,’ with the stated intent of challenging the actors’ skills and encouraging growth. Continue reading In Review: Theatre UNB Presents ‘Cats, Cockatoos, and Caca: Two Plays by Eugene Ionesco’
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In Review: The Improvisation Corporation’s Performance Of David Sedaris’ Holiday Comedy ‘The Santaland Diaries’
The Improvisation Corporation kicked off the Saint John Theatre Company’s Canadian Stages Series tonight, November 30th, with The Santaland Diaries. Neil Bonner stars in this adaptation by Joe Mantello of David Sedaris’s popular essay of the same name, where he recounts his hilarious holiday season working as an elf in Santaland at Macy’s. Continue reading In Review: The Improvisation Corporation’s Performance Of David Sedaris’ Holiday Comedy ‘The Santaland Diaries’
Monthly Roundup: November 2017
It was a damp, drizzly November in our collective souls. Angry mobs took to their social media with pitchforks and torches and memes like an online version of The Purge, and they razed a swath of degradation through whatever was left of our surviving celebrities.
In the meantime, in an arena that has been ceded to the absurd for so long that we no long question it, Kim Jong-un and Donald have switched from hurling insults across Twitter to lobbing ballistics and threatening to wipe the rest of us out.
Back at home, Erin Costelo makes history as the first woman to win the Nova Scotia Music Award for Producer of the Year. It’s a shame we don’t get more excited about the victories that don’t involve bloodshed.
Here’s everything we covered in November, 2017. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: November 2017
Catherine MacLellan, The East Pointers, Ashley Condon, and Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling Tied For 2018 Music PEI Awards
How many award-winning musicians can you fit on an island? The upcoming Music PEI Week in January should be able to answer that as they cram almost every one of their musicians and industry professionals into a conference room. We’ve even got the list of nominees for their 2018 Awards to give us an idea of who will be attending. Continue reading Catherine MacLellan, The East Pointers, Ashley Condon, and Dennis Ellsworth & Kinley Dowling Tied For 2018 Music PEI Awards
Music Video: Construction & Destruction Travel Through Berlin In ‘Running Glass’
Colleen Collins and Dave Trenaman of Construction & Destruction recently unleashed their newest music video ‘Running Glass’ from their album Noli Timere. The video was filmed in Berlin by videographer Rice Master Yen (Helga & Gabi) while the couple was on tour in Europe with The Burning Hell. Continue reading Music Video: Construction & Destruction Travel Through Berlin In ‘Running Glass’