Eastern Front Theatre gears up for Stages in June
Posted May 24, 2023 08:50:20 AM.
Last Updated May 24, 2023 08:51:08 AM.
A line up of innovative, all new productions are set to kick off Eastern Front Theatre’s 30th annual Stages Theatre Festival.
Dedicated to providing a venue for original Atlantic Canadian works, Stages runs June 6 to 11 at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth.
The event will feature full, original productions, free family offerings and interactive pieces and national pop icon Vivek Shraya will close out the festival and her national tour with a standing room concert with local powerhouse T. Thomason.
Artistic Director Kat McCormack says one the highlights will be a main stage production of Aaron Collier’s critically-aclaimed mixed-reality show, Frequencies — its first in-person run after a successful series of performances throughout the pandemic.
“The whole show is sort of this beautiful little confessional about can you love somebody you have never met,” says McCormack about HEIST’S critically acclaimed VR-driven, autobiographical masterpiece. “And also, (it’s) kind of about how he’s a genius, a musical genius and everything in nature has its own frequency and he plays a bunch of them.”
The theatre festival also boasts a series of works-in progress, including Frenchy’s: The Thrift Musical, a play that is set in the iconic chain of Maritime thrift shops.
“It’s about three generations of women who get trapped in a Frenchy’s overnight,” notes McCormack. “It’s a four-part almost barbershop harmony quartet. It’s pretty amazing.”
More information and pay-what-you-can tickets are available on Eastern Front Theatre’s website.
