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Players De Novo replaces Belke play as annual fundraiser
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Five weeks before opening night Players de Novo and Workshop West Playwrights Theatre announced their decision Wednesday to replace David Belke’s Forsooth My Lovely as their upcoming fundraising production. This is their statement: “After careful consideration, … Continue reading
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Catching ‘starstuff’ onstage: Peter and the Starcatcher at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Use your thoughts to hoist the sails,” advises the stalwart Victorian captain of a British frigate in the prologue to Peter and the Starcatcher, opening on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday. Which is exactly what director … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Peter and the Starcatcher, Peter Pan, storybook theatre
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Lighting a (bon)fire under improv
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wrap your mind around this terrifying idea for an improv show: What if an improviser found himself onstage in a fully rehearsed, costumed, blocked 30-minute play he knows nothing about — without a script, as a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Rapid Fire Theatre
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The Maggie Tree presents 9 Parts of Desire: the women of Iraq
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Survival: Life and love in a time of war and occupation. There is nothing simple about the lives of the nine Iraqi women we meet in the 2003 play cum theatrical documentary that opens Thursday … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Heather Raffo, Iraq War, Maggie Tree
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Bright Burning: a conflagration in the class divide. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A sense of absurdity hangs over the group portrait in constant motion in Colleen Murphy’s Bright Burning, currently trashing a beautiful set on the Timms Centre stage. A kid (Jake Tkaczyk) comes down a marble staircase … Continue reading
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Art and politics mix it up at Gravity cabaret
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The situation is … grave. And getting graver. Yup, Gravity, “the cabaret of art and politics” that made its debut 18 months ago, has a lot to work with this time out. We’re at a moment … Continue reading
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Colleen Murphy: burning brightly at Studio Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Our big fat myth,” declares Colleen Murphy (whose declarations tend to have a combustible edge to them) “is that we’re a classless society.” “The tremendous gap between the wealthy and the working poor, and the rage … Continue reading
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MacEwan’s new downtown arts centre: a peek inside
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca There’s a surprise waiting for Edmonton downtown. It’s in an elegant glinting glass-wrapped box that catches the light on all sides. And it’s tied up with lime green ribbons. Here’s impossible magic for you: what’s contained … Continue reading
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The house of the rising son: The Fall of the House of Atreus, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Selfie opp: “I Survived The Fall Of The House Of Atreus” says the hand-lettered sign in the lobby of the Backstage Theatre. “Yee Haw!” And there’s helpful signage, too, for the confused, the bemused, the congenitally … Continue reading
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The Fall of the House of Atreus: fun and games with Greek tragedy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Three actors, 300 prop gags!” “It’s either the highest of the lowbrow or the lowest of the highbrow. One or the other!” declares playwright Jessy Arden cheerily of The Fall of the House of Atreus, the … Continue reading
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