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Capturing a complicated holiday: a new Canadian musical by Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, with songs by Hawksley Workman
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s the first snow of the year/ Guess it happens once a year….” from Almost A Full Moon, Hawksley Workman “Christmas is a complicated holiday,” says playwright Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, pausing to consider the multiple facets of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christmas musicals, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Factory Theatre, Hawksley Workman
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You go girls: The Wolves at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Teamwork makes the dream work,” says the teenage captain of the Wolves, #25, quoting her coach dad, and applying herself sturdily to holding the soccer team together through every kind of teenage girl friction. “Hustle ladies, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Sarah DeLappe, The Maggie Tree
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The soccer field and the planet of teenage girls: The Wolves at the Citadel, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Wolves, opening the Citadel’s Highwire Series Thursday, does something no production has ever done at the big brick-and-glass playhouse downtown. It turns the Rice, the smallest of the Citadel’s theatres, into an indoor soccer field, … Continue reading
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Assault by the (corporate) media: Network, opening the Citadel season. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Before memes became meme-ish, when the medical profession had sole ownership of “viral,” there was the scene in Network, the Paddy Chayefsky film of 50 years ago, in which a veteran TV anchor declared “I’m mad … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Network, Paddy Chayevsky
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Mad as hell: Network launches the Citadel season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The word “prescient” has been floating over the Citadel for weeks now, threading through rehearsals for the play getting its Canadian premiere Thursday on the Shoctor stage. It’s attached to a (very) dark comedy satire about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lee Hall, Paddy Chayefsky, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival
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Knock knock who’s there? Nora’s back, A Doll’s House Part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And it’s crucial there be a door. A very prominent door to the outside….” playwright stage directions, A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath It’s the door that Nora Helmer slammed as she walks out … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Moment Discovery, RBC Horizon Emerging Artist Program, Varscona Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Was it Professor Plum, in the library, with the …? The lead-pipe cinch fun of Clue at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Let the game begin.” What fun. A high-style midsummer comedy whodunnit with all the trimmings, and a larky air of high camp about it. That’s Clue, currently dropping clues, suspicions, weapons, suspects, and dead bodies through … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Clue, Edmonton theatre, murder mysteries, Whodunnits
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Four decades of playing without a script: the Rapid Fire Theatre story is now a book
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thing you’ve just got to love about Rapid Fire Theatre is that everything that makes you anxious (if not out and out crazy) in life is delightful to them. It’s their high-octane fuel, their motivation, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Patti Stiles, Rapid Fire Theatre, Theatre Network, Varscona Theatre
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Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fever Land, according to that heartbreaking/ riotous comedy by which Teatro La Quindicina returned to live performance last fall, is the kingdom where your spirits rise, vivacity accelerates, and the gray clammy feeling of routine is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began in some trepidation, cautiously, experimentally, with complicated logistics, under constant threat of delays and cancellations. But this was the season that live theatre actually returned to live and in-person. Yes, the pivot pivoted. We … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Roxy Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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