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Directing the man in black: a homecoming for Tracey Flye
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “’Til things are brighter, I’m the man in black….” There’s a story built into the Johnny Cash songs you’ll hear in the jukebox musical that opens on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday. Via a catalogue of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, country music, Edmonton theatre, Johnny Cash, jukebox musicals, Ring of Fire
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Have you met our new friend? thoughts on Nassim at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things I can’t tell you about Nassim (tempting though it is). (a) It just wouldn’t be fair. The show created by the Iranian playwright artist Nassim Soleimanpour, who travels the world with it, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Farsi, Nassim Soleimanpour Productions, patreon.com/12thnight, Rice Theatre
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Nassim, an adventure in language and connection: meet playwright Nassim Soleimanpour
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time I talked to Nassim Soleimanpour, six years ago, the Iranian playwright was in the middle of Tehran on a cellphone that kept fading out, and I had laryngitis. There’s got to be an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bush Theatre, Citadel Rice Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nassim Soleimanpour
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Romance into tragedy: the dark, violent, original new hearing-deaf Tempest at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It never stops raining in the version of The Tempest that’s now lashing and splashing and skidding across the Citadel mainstage. As the Fool in Twelfth Night sings (borrowed by this wettest of Tempests for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ASL interpretation, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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“The hour’s now come”: deaf and hearing actors together in The Tempest at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O brave new world, that has such people in’t,” as Miranda, the daughter of a deposed ruler in exile, says in wonder towards the end of one of Shakespeare’s most mysterious and haunting plays. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lorne Cardinal, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Tyst Teater
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Nun but the brave: for your theatre habit, a grand assortment on E-town stages this weekes this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What is it with all the nuns on Edmonton stages this week? It’s a bumper crop, second to nun. In The Candidate at the Citadel, you will see two different heavenly examples, (in a sense … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Mayfield Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Script Salon
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Farce within farce within farce: politics, celebrity and the media. Two new Kat Sandler comedies running simultaneously at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Talk about real-life horning in on theatre (stealing punchlines, sucking up the supply of public outrage, eating all the fake cheese out of the collective fridge). Here’s the thing: It’s an age when politics (in many … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, farce, Kat Sandler, Maclab Theatre, political comedy, Rice Theatre
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A work-out for body and brain: Martha Burns is running in The Party and The Candidate at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are two plays getting their world premieres simultaneously tonight in the Citadel. Martha Burns is in both of them. Burns and her nine cast-mates play characters who inhabit not one but two new Kat Sandler … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, farce, Kat Sandler, Martha Burns, political comedy
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Slight of Mind: boarding now at the Citadel, flights into the unknown. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Notes from the departure lounge: We’ve been welcomed by a ground crew of beaming and perky flight attendants. We’ve been through security. Very professional. “Have you been on a farm?” No. “Have you consumed anything organic?” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amelia Earhart, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Icarus, promenade theatre, Theatre Yes, Valentina Tereshkova
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