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A new (and all-Canadian) season at L’UniThéâtre launches with Le Palier

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches the new, all-Canadian season tonight at L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre company, an unlikely friendship blossoms, fast, in an unlikely place. As director Steve Jodoin explains, Le Palier opens with … Continue reading

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Embrace the kooky: Trout Stanley at L’UniThéâtre, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a kind of kooky mania — or is it frazzled euphoria? — about the captivatingly weird play that’s currently running, for the first time ever in French, at L’UniThéâtre. You couldn’t go wrong calling … Continue reading

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Bienvenue: a new artistic director and a new season for L’UniThéâtre

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m pretty stoked!” declares Steve Jodoin, the (perfectly bilingual) new artistic director of L’UniThéâtre, Edmonton’s only professional francophone theatre company. In these post-pandemic times he has the sense that the venerable company has emerged into the … Continue reading

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Simone et le whole shebang: the season opens at L’UniThéâtre

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the intricate dark comedy that launches the L’UniThéâtre season Friday, a couple of 60-something-plus strangers from elsewhere, sporting symmetrically opposed damages, meet  — in a nursing home in Fort McMurray, the unofficial Canadian home of … Continue reading

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