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Who's in the spotlight at the Fredericton Playhouse this month?

The Fredericton Playhouse offers an eclectic mix of entertainment on the Spotlight Series Stage and the Kidstage Series this month.

TheFredericton PlayhouseSpotlight Series and Kidstage Series invites some of the most exciting artists touring today to the Playhouse stage, offering East Coast favourites, internationally acclaimed ensembles, up-and-coming musicians, innovative dance and circus shows, hilarious comedy performances, inspiring theatre pieces and much more.

Here is the lineup for October:

Spotlight Series

Seven dancers in various poses in a line on stage with a black background.
Radical System Art presents this impactful dance-theatre piece fusing contemporary and urban dance, martial arts, and theatre in Momentum of Isolation. (Courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse)
MOMENTUM OF ISOLATION- Monday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.
Momentum of Isolation, by B.C.-based company RadicalSystem Art,explores the timely themes of digital existences, shifting values, and social isolation for a thoughtful and kinetic show that aims to remind viewers how much we need each other. Their dance, theatre and martial arts combine with interactive technology and design to create impactful performances. By weaving movement, sound and imagery together, they create a universal language that voices what can't be said with words.
Jeanne Armstrong spoke to Tim Yerxaabout the new season at the Playhouseand about the first show in the Spotlight series,Momentum of Isolation.
Ten members of an orchestra called  Lemon Bucket Orkestra pose for a photo holding instruments from trumpets to violins. Five members sitting on a couch, five standing behind.
Lemon Bucket Orkestra brings its guerilla-folk party-punk style to the Spotlight Series stage. (Courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse)
LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA - Friday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Lemon Bucket Orkestra is a13-piece band comprised of world-class musicians wielding an eclectic collection of instruments, resulting in a musical mashup of Eastern European folk with Western interpretation.Equal parts exhilarating precision and reckless abandon, LBO's live shows are a truly immersive experience ranging from the ecstatic to the cathartic and all points in between. Over the past13 years they have performed all over the world from New Zealand to Slovakia, Quebec City and Toronto, and now they're returning to Fredericton for the first time in nine years.
Tim Yerxa has a preview of The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, described as"Guerilla-folk party-punk".
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Members of Symphony New Brunswick and Resonance New Music will perform an original score to the 1979 classic-thriller. (Courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse)
THE CHINA SYNDROME - Thursday, Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m.
A film screening of the 1979 classic disaster-thrillerThe China Syndrome(starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas) accompanied by members of Symphony New Brunswick and Resonance New Music performing an original score, composed by New Brunswick's Andrew Reed Miller.
Four men standing in a row against a backdrop of signs that say Tickets and Front of the Line Access $25.
The Trans-Canada Highwaymen are, from left, Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness), Craig Northey (Odds), Chris Murphy (Sloan), and Steven Page (ex-Barenaked Ladies). (Courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse)
TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAYMEN - Friday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m.
This all-Canadian supergroup features longtime legends of the radio waves: Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness), Chris Murphy (Sloan), Craig Northey (Odds) and Steven Page (ex-Barenaked Ladies). Each band member takes turns singing their A-List hits, so buckle up for an evening filled with some of your favourite Can-Rock classics. This supergroup started playing shows together as TCH in 2017. At the shows, each take turns singing their own hit songs, while those not singing lead become the backing band for whoever is singing.

KidstageSeries

Two girls with their hair in a bun and ringlets in yellow suits. One is passing the other a cake, as she appears to ride a conveyor belt.
The Returns Department features the Kif-Kif Sisters, identical twins from Montreal who have been creating shows for the public since 2007. Join the conveyor belt of fun from the Kidstage Series. (Courtesy of Fredericton Playhouse)
THE RETURNS DEPARTMENT - THE KIF-KIF SISTERS - Sunday, Oct. 20, 2 p.m.
Welcome to the Returns Department, where family friendly slapstick comedy meets world class puppetry. The Kif-Kif sisters inspect an ever-revolving conveyor belt of broken goods and try their best not to play with the goods. What could go wrong?! The Returns Department combines physical theatre, circus, robotics and puppetry. There is a French performance at noon.