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Fresh Hell: Career women Joan of Arc and Dorothy Parker hit the stage together (really!) in a new Conni Massing play
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new play that premieres in the Shadow Theatre season this week has a premise that’s bound to make you smile. Conni Massing’s Fresh Hell brings together on one stage two women who not only didn’t … Continue reading
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Workshop West: the playwrights’ theatre is back, live, with a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre turns 43 this season with a live, all-Canadian lineup, dubbed “Daring Greatly,” that includes two premieres by Edmonton playwrights, the return after a decade to a signature WWPT new play development festival, … Continue reading
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Shadow Theatre focuses on local writers next season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre will finish its current season — but not until the fall. The Wrong People Have Money, the Shadow season finale with the resonant title (I can see you nodding), was to have premiered at … Continue reading
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All about the playwright: Workshop West celebrates the big 4-oh
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was not one of those storied red carpet openings, where everyone knows that history is being made and dresses accordingly. But then, what little Canadian theatre starts that way? Four decades ago, a sometime playwright/ … Continue reading
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Hanging our obsessions on the tannenbaum: Oh! Christmas Tree. A guest review by Todd Babiak
By Todd Babiak Those who love Christmas tend to have trouble empathizing with those who — for no solid religious or cultural reasons — don’t feel it. From Charlie Brown and The Grinch to Ebenezer Scrooge and the incontinent drunk … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blunt Entertainment, Brian Deedrick, Christmas shows, Conni Massing, Edmonton theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, Theatre of the New Heart
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The double-optic on Christmas: meet the real-life couple starring in Oh! Christmas Tree
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If Lora Brovold and Collin Doyle, the real-life couple who star in Oh! Christmas Tree, have a special rapport with the characters in Conni Massing’s new comedy (opening Thursday at Theatre Network), it’s not surprising. They’ve … Continue reading
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To tree or not to tree, that is the question: Conni Massing’s new comedy Oh! Christmas Tree at the Roxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Oh! Christmas Tree, the new Conni Massing romantic comedy that opens Thursday at Theatre Network, a relationship is under extreme pressure. Is it money? Snoring? Musical tastes? Lunatic relativies? Whether to acquire a shitsu? No, … Continue reading
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Dreaming of home: Matara takes us to the zoo and a lone elephant, at Workshop West. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is her home. And we are her family.” That’s Karen the zookeeper (Elinor Holt) taking on protesters and talking about her charge, who’s big, exotic, fascinating — and languishing a world away from her ‘country … Continue reading
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“The elephant in the room is … an elephant.” Conni Massing’s Matara opens the Workshop West season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca That not one but two new plays by Conni Massing are premiering this season is noteworthy. That they open a mere two weeks apart, the work of two different theatre companies, is more striking still. … Continue reading
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