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“I’m not the man I was….” A new Christmas Carol at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. Front-rack anything in the colour red: “red at the primary point of visual contact increases sales by 5.4 per cent.” This retail wisdom comes courtesy of Mr. Ebenezer … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, David van Belle, Ebenezer Scrooge, Edmonton theatre, Ted Dykstra
The Citadel’s upcoming 54th season: local stars in an international galaxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new logo is just the tip-off. Monday afternoon at Edmonton’s largest playhouse artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled an ambitious upcoming Citadel season — its 54th and his third as the architect of the company lineup. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Todd Babiak
She swings, she kicks, she flies: behind the legend a new Robin Hood for our time in The Silver Arrow at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the swashbuckler adventure extravaganza that premieres on, above, and around the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday, everything you thought you knew about a certain legendary 12th century outlaw hero (with a proclivity for the colour … Continue reading
At the Citadel, a new focus for developing new plays
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fun of a block party is the unpredictable mix of people who live in proximity, get included, and show up to play. Block Party is the nickname, and “community” the theme of the inaugural edition … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Accelerator Play Development, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, new plays, Rachel Peake, The Lab
The high line to Hadestown
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How to get to Hadestown/ You’ll have to take the long way down….” And as the world-weary god/narrator Hermes sings “there ain’t no compass, brother, ain’t no map.” Yes, the road to Hadestown is long, uncharted, … Continue reading
Igniting connections: a review of Ubuntu at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A son dreams nightly of his father. That’s how it starts. But what sets Ubuntu: The Cape Town Project on its zigzag course through two time periods 30 years apart is an inspired perpetual motion scene, … Continue reading
Embracing the other: Ubuntu’s cross-cultural journey at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday wasn’t born, like other plays, in a story, a character, an image. Ubuntu would end up with all of the above, unspooling in dance, movement, music, … Continue reading
In love with Shakespeare: the Citadel’s season-opener is a sumptuous love letter to theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the entertainment world there’s no shortage of movies transformed into stage extravaganzas (thank Disney for a slew of them). It happens all the time, with motives no one would call pure. So it’s a special … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love, Tom Stoppard
From Romeo to Shakespeare: meet Andrew Chown, the actor who plays the mystery man
By Liz Nicholls 12thnight.ca So who is William Shakespeare anyhow? The world has always wondered. And in the romantic comedy that opens the season Thursday on the Citadel mainstage, we meet the mystery man himself — as a young working … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love
“We’re all in this together” forsooth: the spirit of inclusion in the Citadel season opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Shall I compare thee to a … sum … a sum … a something, something… Damn it.” In the opening scene of the play that launches the new Citadel season Thursday, we meet an up-and-coming playwright … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christopher Marlowe, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Love