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‘ClownProv’ headliners: Play The Fool is back to send in the clowns
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two of the country’s most energetic, hyperkinetic clown stars are the headliners of this year’s eighth annual Play The Fool Festival, returning Thursday for four days. Toronto’s Isaac Kessler and Ken Hall, who have evidently never … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Batrabbiot Productions, bouffon, clowning, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, SNAFU Productions
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Sending in the clowns (online): Play The Fool Fest is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Clowns: it takes all kinds. And we have the festival to prove it. At Play the Fool, returning Thursday (online again) for a sixth annual edition, you’ll meet “the world’s first German Nihilist life coach,” for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, bouffon, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul, Fringe TV, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool Two-Minute Film Festival, Shannan Calcutt, Small Matters Theatre
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Weal Thyman The Third: a bouffon clown show to provoke you at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When you’re creating a bouffon clown show about a grotesque filthy-rich capitalist with businesses, land, money, possessions, sycophants, and an insatiable appetite for more more more, it’s not as if you have to rack your brains … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, clown, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2019, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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The fine art of foolery: the return of Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Foolery, sir, doth walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.” – Twelfth Night III, i. Edmonton, we are about to have an outbreak — an eruption? an infiltration? invasion? effervescence? collision? conflagration? — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, Christine Lesiak, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, physical theatre, Play The Fool Festival
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Breaking the rules of love, Red Bastard: Lie With Me. A guest 12thnight Fringe review by Todd Babiak
Red Bastard: Lie With Me (Stage 11, Nordic Studio Theatre) The Red Bastard is a white-faced, red-eyed beast in a unitard with a balloon-stuffed midriff. He jumps, dances, slurps, spins, shouts, cackles, and snorts across the stage trying to understand … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, Cirque du Soleil, Edmonton Fringe 2018
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