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The fine art of foolery: the return of Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Foolery, sir, doth walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.” – Twelfth Night III, i. Edmonton, we are about to have an outbreak — an eruption? an infiltration? invasion? effervescence? collision? conflagration? — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, Christine Lesiak, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, physical theatre, Play The Fool Festival
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Once … upon a time: meet Ann Hodges, director of the cult film-turned-musical that launches the Citadel season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Once … upon a time there was a winsomely offbeat 2007 indie Irish film, about the unlikely friendship between a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant. It was made for a dime (well, $150,000), shot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, musical theatre, Once
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The exhilaration of chaos: Teatro revives the screwball Skirts On Fire as their 2018 season finale
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a scene that might have been lifted direct from the Teatro La Quindicina archive, a playwright and a leading man were in a tiny Strathcona cocktail bar last week discussing the essence of screwball comedy. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Thou Art Where? A roving production of Shakespeare’s Will in a cemetery, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thou Art Here!, a company that does Shakespeare meet-and-greets in unexpected locations, takes us to a graveyard. It’s dusk. Five ghostly women appear through the trees in the distance and come towards us. As the daylight … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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Mrs. Shakespeare gets her voice back, in a graveyard: Shakespeare’s Will with Thou Art Here!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A woman dancing on a grave.” That’s the image that inspired the roving outdoor production of Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will opening Thursday in a cemetery near you, says director Andrew Ritchie. So decisively did that image … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Sudsing up for an improv marathon: a family reunion at Die-Nasty’s 26th annual Soap-A-Thon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Festive, but ominous. That’s the buzz today: You, my friends, are going to a family reunion this weekend. Starting tonight at 7 p.m. the far-flung members of the Bun-Bun family, owners and operators of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Soap-A-Thon, Varscona Theatre
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Oh, what a knight: Two Good Knights at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know the songs. Heck, you can’t NOT know the songs. By now they’re in the collective DNA, and that much-abused term iconic doesn’t go amiss. Which is both a magnetic draw and a challenge for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton theatre, Elton John, Keith Retson-Spalding, Kieran Martin Murphy, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues, Tom Jones, Van Wilmott
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The Tudor period: heads of state in wigs. 2 Queens & A Joker: A Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2 Queens & A Joker (Stage 17, The Roxy on Gateway) It’s been a while (OK, a decade) since Guys in Disguise, those flamboyant cultural historians, applied themselves to the Tudor period, famous for its strong … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2018, Edmonton theatre, Fringe reviews, Guys in Disguise
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The appropriation dance: Whiteface. A Fringe review
Whiteface (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Is there a way out? Does anybody know a way out?” The masked figures trapped onstage are increasingly frantic. No suggestions are forthcoming. Masks are the chief theatrical device, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival 2018, Edmonton theatre, Fringe reviews, Lady Vanessa Cordoba, Todd Houseman
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