Last night we played the first of two shows at The Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen St. in Halifax. The crowd was lively and we had a very interesting talkback session with questions about the choice of images in our slide projections and what they meant for what we were hoping to accomplish with our [...]
We’ve been getting quite a bit of it on this trip, both local (Halifax Herald, Daily News) and national (CBC, Globe and Mail). Most of it is already online here: www.optative.net/neptune/media.html
After a long drive and a day of flyering, talking to the media and in general having a good time in Halifax, we headed to Annapolis Royal for our first Nova Scotia show, yesterday, November 14th, the 400th anniversary of Lescarbot’s play. Of course, we had to pay a visit to the “birthplace of drama” [...]
The Montreal cast and crew of Sinking Neptune is leaving for Nova Scotia tomorrow morning. We will be playing a show in Anapolis Royal at King’s Theatre on Tuesday, November 14th and two shows in Halifax at The Bus Stop on November 15th and 16th. We’re going to help start the next 400 years of [...]
by Cassandra Witteman I have been getting involved in theatrical experiments commenting on global culture and consumerism. This recent Buy Nothing Day, Optative Theatre Laboratories planned a performance at the flag-ship American Apparel store on St. Laurent. Unfortunately, American Apparel didn’t think very much of our statement and tried to shut us down before we [...]
by Stan Kristansen Linux is a free computer operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone. By using Linux you can say goodbye to hefty software costs, hidden pop-ups, and corporate [...]
