Arts& culture

Fundy Cinema screens The Trip to Spain

After their culinary outings to the Lake District and down the Italian coast, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon team up once more to indulge in Iberian epicurean delights and their iconic impressions while coming to terms with their older selves and more settled family lives.

Runs Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Al Whittle Theatre, 450 Main St., Wolfville. Tickets are $9 and are available 30 minutes before screening.

Fundy Cinema screens Lady MacBeth

After Katherine is forced into a cold, unforgiving family and a stifling, loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age in 1860s rural England, she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate which unleashes a force inside her so powerful that she will literally stop at nothing to get what she needs.

Runs Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. at Al Whittle Theatre, 450 Main St., Wolfville. Tickets are $9 and are available 30 minutes before screening. Contact 902-542-1050

These memoirs include some great tales like the fiddle playing customer whose landlady didn’t like the sound of his instrument, so he kept it at the barbershop.

“Sometimes we’d see him walking by on the opposite side of the street and call him in for a recital,” Lightfoot recalls.

After enduring the slow business of the long-haired 60s, today of making rust prints and then applying various inks, paints, and pastels. All materials are supplied, including rust print mounted on wood panel. There’s a limited class size. Cost is $165. Call Acadia Art Gallery at 902585-1373, or The Printmaker at 902-582-3656.

Scrooge! The Musical starts Nov. 4

Scrooge! The Musical by Leslie Bricusse is being presented at CentreStage Theatre in Kentville.

The cast includes Alan Slipp, Keigan Richard, Aaron Kane, Bryen Stoddard, Marc Charrier, Jilly Richard, Jennifer MacDonald, Don Muise, Melanie Clouthier Coleman. Breagh MacLean, London Cross, Jane Maillet, Keira Melanson, Brandon Taylor, Isaiah Vallillee, Cedric Van Exel, Sophie Van Exel, Agatha Bourassa, Charlotte Crouch, Beth Irvine, Hailey Kane, Heike Landry, J. Richard Richard, and Tim Vallillee.

Tickets are adults $15; seniors/ students $12; children 12 and under $5. CentreStage takes cash or cheques only. Reservations are held until 15 minutes before show time.

The show, directed by Thea Burton, will be on stage Fridays and Saturdays beginning Nov. 4 until Dec. 8. There will be no

performance on Nov. 11, Remembrance Day. Front of House opens at 6:45 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Matinees are on Sundays – Nov. 12 and 26, and Dec. 3. Front of House opens at 1:15 p.m. and the show starts at 2 p.m. Call 902678-8040 for reservations.

Lullaby:

Inside the Halifax Explosion

Eastern Front Theatre’s “Lullaby: Inside the Halifax Explosion” takes to the stage Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Mermaid Imperial Performing Arts Centre in Windsor.

The play is a dramatic, educational and emotive experience that explores little-told stories of the events of Dec. 6, 1917.

It’s a day that has become synonymous with tales of heroism, survival, and of how a community fought against the disaster and the elements. It’s a tale of how Canadians emerged from under terrible conditions to help each other.

Tickets are $34 in advance and $ 36 at the door. Tickets available at Ticketpro.ca, by contacting 888-311-9090, and Windsor Home Hardware.

Go To: http://mermaidtheatre. ca/mipac/

NOTE: “Lullaby” also shows at Evergreen Theatre in East Margaretsville Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Contact Evergreen Theatre at 902- 825- 6834. Tickets can be purchased online.

Soldiers of Song at Evergreen Theatre Nov. 10

Soldiers of Song, is a live performance involving theatre, music, and storytelling based on the original works of the Dumbells, a Canadian concert party that entertained the troops on the front line in the First World War. It comes to the Evergreen Theatre Nov. 10 at 8 p.m.

If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest sound-

track. The soldier-entertainers’ journey from Vimy to vaudeville is now celebrated in the musical play Soldiers of Song, written and directed by award-winning author and two-time Juno Awardnominee Jason Wilson.

The cast of musicians and actors bring the old comedy sketches and humorous war songs to life. Throughout the show, storyteller Lorne Brown shares stories about his personal connection to the Dumbells.

Contact Evergreen Theatre at 902-825-6834. Tickets can be purchased online.

Horton’s Chantal Peng performs

Horton High School grade 12 student Chantal Peng will be performing with the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. at the Acadia University Convocation Hall in Wolfville. She is the 2017 province-wide Concerto Competition winner.

Tickets for the Wolfville concert are $12 (kids/students) and $30 (full waged) and are available at the Convocation Hall box office. There will be another concert performance the following day on at St. Andrew’s Church in Halifax at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the Halifax concert are $15 (kids/ students) and $30 (full waged).

In the Galleries

• On display currently at Jack’s Gallery in Wolfville are a series of drawings by Gillian Baldwin. Un-noticed, Assemblages of the

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• Evangeline Artists Cooperative