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The two person, six gun, many power ballad musical: Bonnie and Clyde at Northern Light: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre director/designer Trevor Schmidt is something of a wizard of witty theatrical transformations. With Bonnie & Clyde the two person six-gun musical, the Northern Light season finale, his proven ingenuity has a double challenge. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonnie and Clyde, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Northern Light Theatre
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Hey, emerging audience! it’s a weekend to go out to the theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s always anticipation in theatre, as there should be, about “emerging” playwrights, directors, actors. There are whole festivals devoted to them, like the upcoming 2017 edition of Nextfest. Leave aside for another day the tricky question … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network
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Two people, 6 guns, a lot of music: meet the young stars of Bonnie and Clyde
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We know them as historical celebrities, the bank robber stars of a Depression Era crime spree who made a spectacular exit from the world in a bullet-riddled Ford in 1934. But in the “two person six-gun” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonnie and Clyde, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Art: is the price right? A review of the Shadow season finale
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Art, the Shadow Theatre season finale, is the quintessential modern provocation/sight gag: a big-ticket white-on-white painting by someone famous. “Modern art” is a perennially combustible subject. Trust me, you can’t be a reviewer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Art, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Yasmina Reza
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Prima viene la famiglia! Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Made In Italy is a long wooden dining room table. In the course of the funny, touching, many-character solo play by Farren Timoteo, its agile creator and star will sit behind it and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Club, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Farren Timoteo, Italian culture
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Keep making sense: Sense and Sensibility at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the Citadel of an evening, you can overhear talk of annual incomes, real estate and mortgages, annuities and entailments, wills and estates, pre-nups. And, of course, renos. And no, gentle reader, it isn’t in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bob Baker, Citadel Theatre, Citadel/Banff Professional Program, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Tom Wood
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But is it Art? three guys sitting around discussing a painting at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Scene: Three guys in a room discussing a play about three guys in a room discussing a painting. The play under discussion is Art, the elegantly minimalist 1994 play by Parisian actor/playwright Yasmin Reza that’s the … Continue reading
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The world of Jane Austen comes to the stage in Tom Wood’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With Sense and Sensibility, premiering on the Citadel MainStage Thursday in a Bob Baker production, playwright Tom Wood returns to the small-town Regency life into which he first tumbled, without Jane-ite baggage (even carry-on), in 2008. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Citadel/Banff Professional Program, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, stage adaptations, Tom Wood
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Fun with the famiglia: Farren Timoteo talks about Made in Italy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Farren Timoteo was seven years old, he arrived home from school one day to be greeted by his dad with the following (delivered in a portentous tone): “I think you’re old enough now.” Luigi was … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Farren Timoteo, Italian culture, Jasper, one-man shows, Western Canada Theatre
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O those dancing bones and the story of Alberta: The Bone Wars, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s something pretty wacky and exhilarating about catching a musical comedy about warring palaeontologists any time — but especially on Earth Day and the March For Science weekend. Take it as a sign of global heartwarming. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Badlands, dinosaurs, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre
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