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Dance and Play at Christmas

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Every year, when the dust settles, my philosophical self starts thinking about the craziness of the preceeding weeks. What, I hear you ask, could this dust settling be about? And it's not yet Christmas. I refer to the euphoria and madness of producing the stage show at the Dalhousie Institute every year. Read on. Leave your comments. Share the link. We have a Christmas Carols Evening every year before Christmas.  It's a festival on its own. For several years now, I have been in the thick of things.  The stage performance is followed by the signature Barbecue dinner with choices of chicken, pork, beef and vegetables!  But "the play's the thing" as Shakespeare would have said.  Over the last few years, excepting the pandemic years, we have produced some pretty interesting programmes which make up for the shortfall in perfection by an powerful outpouring of emotion. Here's a peek behind the scenes of some of the earlier productions.  And an inside view of how it