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More about folly than love: A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings Freewill Shakespeare back to the park. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Blow blow thou winter wind…” oops, wrong play. After two years of wandering the town in small-cast entertainments, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival is back on the big stage in Hawrelak Park. And on Tuesday’s blustery, unremittingly … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre
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Under the big top: after two years Freewill Shakespeare Festival is back in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The geese are milling around backstage in the greenest of green rooms. A crew is planting marigolds on the route between the gate and the stage. The mosquitos are working out their ensemble numbers. Sound cues … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre. 12thnight.ca, Measure For Measure
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The spirit of mirth, brought to you live: Lodestar Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I have had a most rare vision,” says Bottom, a stage-struck weaver with boundless enthusiasm for theatrical pursuits, late in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I had one of those, too. Friday night I dreamed I found … Continue reading
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But soft, enter our first Winter Shakespeare Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the playwright has said (zestfully, in Twelfth Night) “this is very midsummer madness.” Except that it’s in the bleak midwinter. Have a peek at Edmonton’s newest festival, the Winter Shakespeare Festival inside the vintage wooden … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Benjamin Blyth, Edmonton theatre, Julius Caesar, Malachite Theatre, Winter Shakespeare Festival
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