Presented by The Gahan House The Gahan House has expanded across the Maritimes, and to celebrate th [ ... ]
The Star of the Sea Seniors' Club hosts weekly Auction 45 card parties on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm. It in [ ... ]
In what had already been an extraordinary summer for the Charlottetown Festival, the producers of the Festival may well have saved the best for last.
The House of Martin Guerre, presented September 18 as a one-night-only staged concert, was absolutely brilliant, a powerful and emotionally stirring tale of love, loss, deception, betrayal and ultimately of sacrifice, played
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Justice is a basic human need, and for many Canadians, including people of Métis heritage, justice has been illusory since the birth of our nation.
How does one find meaning in life without justice? Sheldon Elter embodies that quest for meaning in the auto biographical play, Métis Mutt, which demonstrates how claiming public space and
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Your derelict diarist is a fraud, folks. Or I was until last Wednesday, anyway. Here I was masquerading as an alleged quasi-authority on PEI theatre when I’d never seen a Patrick Ledwell show. Feel free to hurl your newspaper across the room in disgust, or just scowl scornfully at your screen if you’re reading this electronically. Maybe shake
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It’s Thursday night at the historic Kings Playhouse in Georgetown, PEI. An ornate black podium looms above the audience as swirling wisps of fog and the faint strains of eerie music fill the dimly lit air. Eventually, the stage lighting turns blood red as a cloaked, hooded figure appears like the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.
The apparition
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If I’m driving through the country and my eyes fall on an abandoned house or a farm that has long since fallen into disarray I can’t help but wonder who might have lived there.
What kind of lives did they lead?
Was it place where people lived full, happy lives, a place where music and laughter were heard, or one where sadness dwelled and life was just a
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Perhaps the word ‘crisis’ should have more positive connotations, at least within a personal context. Directed by Islander, Charlotte Gowdy, Myth of the Ostrich, playfully illustrates the dysfunction caused by avoiding threatening realities. When branches of distortion are finally torn away in a painful pruning, a more fruitful existence is possible. That
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Most years at the Island Fringe, I can narrow my favourite show down to one or two contenders by the end of the festival. This year, three shows were pretty much neck-and-neck in my affections come the end: Cardboard Countess, Half a Star and Wild Card.
All three plays have something in common beyond quality entertainment: they’re either two-handers
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Like some of the other shows at this year’s Island Fringe Festival, Realizations is dark, brave and quasi-autobiographical. Staged by Small Town Queer Menace Productions, this play explores issues regarding rape culture and forging one’s own sexual identity, as written by Kandace Hagen and directed by Rory Starkman. Based in part on incidents
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Benefit Dance for Shannon Morriscey October 26 In May 2018, Shannon Morriscey, a single mother wit [ ... ]
Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Patrick Chan and more in Summerside
November 15
Credit Union Place
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October 28
Belle-Alliance Center
The launch of the CD Ballades, un projet père et fille, volume 1, [ ... ]
Profile: Emma Fugate by Jane Ledwell Emma Fugate has three different business cards: “One for my [ ... ]
Release date on World Suicide Prevention Day Local singer/songwriter Destiny Best is tapping into h [ ... ]
FIN Atlantic International Film Festival is an eight-day celebration of film, media and music from t [ ... ]
