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Teatro turns 35 with a new season of comedies, variously hued
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh, it’s beyond fun….” — Dominica, in The Talking Turk Now, there’s a mantra for a Teatro season. In The Salon of the Talking Turk, the vintage Stewart Lemoine comedy that launches Teatro La Quindicina’s 2017 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian comedy, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, murder mysteries, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, theatre season
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Exit, pursued by a crow: Nicole Moeller’s new play asks tough questions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Jasper has to save the princess.” When Nicole Moeller follows the thread of her new play back back back to its birthplace, that’s the line she heard in her head. Intriguing, yes, and not just because … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, iHuman Youth Society, Nicole Moeller, Steve Pirot
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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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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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Battle of the bone hunters: The Bone Wars is Punctuate!’s biggest show yet
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Bone Wars wasn’t always going to be theatre for grown-ups to take kids to. Far from it. Punctuate! Theatre, after all, got its raison d’être, and exclamation point, tackling plays about the conflicted descendants … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta dinosaurs, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre
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Chris Craddock talks about Irma Voth: novel, theatre, and film meet onstage
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Naturally playwright/ actor/ master improviser/ filmmaker/ screenwriter/ “double-dad” Chris Craddock is relaxed at pre-12-hour rehearsal breakfast in Strathcona last week. Why wouldn’t he be? Surely, his life of late is a flat landscape of non-eventful tranquillity … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Craddock, Edmonton theatre, Irma Voth, Miriam Toews, Theatre Network
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Get your Fairy Godmother on the case: Cinderella is coming to town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca “Impossible, for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage./ Impossible, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage….” Impossible? Well, hang on … actually, there is a precedent. And you’ll see … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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