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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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Art, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Yasmina Reza
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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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Celebrate Will’s birthday: see who he cut from Hamlet before opening night
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thoughts for Shakespeare’s birthday weekend.… It’s entirely possible there’s a theatre play ready for germination in every playwright brain. By that I mean a play about the theatre, and there’s a wealth of raw material to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Lyle Victor Albert, one-act play festival, plays about theatre, Stage Struck
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Escape into the playful grown-up world of art: Chris Craddock’s Irma Voth at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Enter the Roxy, and see what a sense of possibility looks like. A shallow stage is dominated by a beautiful translucent wall made entirely of framed windows. Windows that will glow promisingly, conjure paintings or cityscapes, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Craddock, Edmonton theatre, Irma Voth, Mennonites, Miriam Toews, Theatre Network
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