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Good poetry always makes me question the hardest elements of being alive. The difference between reading poetry and sitting through a hard counselling session is simple: the words are painted on the page in such a way that no matter how hard they make me cringe in an introspective, damn-I-wish-that-came-from-my-brain-first kind of way, I always […]

Stars on Ice is a mixture of dance, theatrics, and—of course—ice skating, blending in a gloriously campy experience sure to bring a smile to any audience members’ face. The show—which came to Victoria’s Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre on Tuesday, May 16—provides a balance between the dark and light, although the glitzy ensemble opening to Bruno Mars’ […]

The Fitting Room and Snowfrog may display drastically different situations, yet on a deeper level, the two plays—on now as a double bill at Intrepid Theatre—manage to connect. The intensity the actors brought to their roles on opening night was astounding. While it is at times a little over the top, their characterizations allowed me […]

Within the pages of Victoria author Tom Hawthorn’s new book, The Year Canadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their country: The Centennial of 1967, readers will discover the history of Canada’s 100-year-anniversary and how our nation was forever transformed after 1967. “Canada was marking its 100th birthday of its founding and the government had decided […]

Students at Camosun College have varying opinions over which candidate to cast their ballot for in the upcoming BC provincial elections. About a third of the people Nexus spoke to on a recent May morning said they supported the Green Party, a third said they supported the NDP, and another third said they were undecided. […]

As anyone who is familiar with the plays of Harold Pinter—who won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature—will attest, his works are notoriously unconventional, requiring a deft and figuratively minded hand for everything from set dressing to movement direction to be executed effectively. I’m happy to report that Jacob Richmond’s production of The Caretaker has […]

Having attended a university-prep school with a notable performing arts program, I was no stranger to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde going into this play. As I took my seat in the intimate Langham Court theatre, which is full of timeless character and faint smells of oak, I wondered if I was in for another […]

From the wonderful and imaginative mind of novelist and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro comes Alice Munro Stories, two hour-long plays based, word for word, on two of her short stories. Alice Munro Stories, which is running at the Belfry Theatre, invoke a sense of instant curiosity, some laughs, and maybe even a tear or […]

Legendary American poet Robert Frost once said that “a poem begins as a lump in the throat… a homesickness, a lovesickness.” Some of the contestants for this year’s slam-poetry competition Victorious Voices could definitely say that rings true for them. This year’s alumnus of honour Sam Ferraby writes any chance he gets, and doing so […]