Category Archive: Matt

BUP60: Long Slow Goodbye

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Episode 60 of the Bloody Underrated podcast is here. It features 27 songs spanning a multitude of genres. These songs all mean a lot to me, for different reasons. I hope you enjoy… Read More

BUMP: Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers

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Ben Caplan, the Hamilton-born and Halifax-nurtured bearded wonder, released his debut album In the Time of the Great Remembering in 2011. How it took me this long to come across this fantastic piece… Read More

Good People @ Centaur

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Alright, so here goes a basic idea of the play: a bunch of people living in Boston have tough lives. The play’s protagonist, Margie, lives in a small apartment with her disabled adult… Read More

The Seventh Seal @ D. B. Clarke Theatre

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The Concordia University Theatre Department has a bit of a record of taking on rather intense shows, and most often it works out quite well. This past weekend, the department mounted their interpretation… Read More

The Pillowman @ MainLine Theatre

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Martin McDonagh has a certain way about his writing – it’s fast-paced, dialogue heavy, distinctly dark in its humour. If you aren’t paying attention, you might get a little lost. The Pillowman is… Read More

If you’re in a theatre right now, don’t read this out loud

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B.U.’s very own Matt Xhignesse is performing in something exciting shortly, so we decided to have him write about it. As for the title, well, if you don’t get it, read this. So… Read More

Titanic: The Untold Story @ Segal Centre

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Anthony Sherwood Productions takes a different perspective on a familiar story, if only so because of James Cameron. This is, of course, that of the Titanic. To mark the 100-year anniversary of the… Read More

Montreal Fringe: Gaulier Made Me Cry

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Clowning is no easy thing to do, and that’s what Kendall Savage and Jess Fildes seek to show us in Gaulier, a fictionalized experience of what happened when Kendall took a clown master… Read More

Montreal Fringe: Jewish Girls Don’t Kayak

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…but this one does. Robyn Israel’s one-woman show is a fictionalized account of her own experiences in life. She is Jewish, as her name might suggest, and much of the show revolves around… Read More

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