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Three musicals and two plays: a new season announced at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the course of next season on the Mayfield Dinner Theatre stage, announced this week by artistic director Van Wilmott, audiences will find themselves watching one of the great contemporary farces, as well as a hit … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, dinner theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elton John, Ken Ludwig, Lend Me A Tenor, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Sister Act, Sleuth, Tom Jones, Van Wilmott
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Can life move forward after great trauma? Poison, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The unexpected thing about Poison isn’t its intensity. After all, its starting point is unimaginable loss. No, the unexpected thing about Poison, as you’ll see in this stunningly acted Wild Side production directed by Jim Guedo, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Lot Vekemans, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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The theatre of the supernatural: Cat Walsh’s Do This In Memory Of Me, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Do This In Memory Of Me, a strange and captivating new coming-of-age comedy by Cat Walsh, takes us into the richly decorated, permeable mind of a highly imaginative 12-year-old Catholic girl. Geneviève’s is a mind with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cat Walsh, Edmonton theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre
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The fun of Oy-rish charm: Outside Mullingar, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fabled Irish countryside connection between man and The Land has a kind of crackpot quirkiness in this charmingly wispy 2014 Oy-rish rom-com by the redoubtable American playwright John Patrick Shanley, of Moonstruck and Doubt fame. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Irish theatre, John Hudson, John Patrick Shanley, Shadow Theatre
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The byways of grief: director Jim Guedo talks about Poison
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight in the Roxy Performance Series introduces audiences here to an award-winning Dutch playwright whose reputation continues to expand in Europe and around the world in eight languages (to date). Poison, Lot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dutch theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Lot Vekemans, Wild Side Productions
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The dark mysteries of the world: Cat Walsh talks about her new play Do This In Memory Of Me
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Death. Blood. Dark mysteries laced with eerie hints of the supernatural. A smudgy frontier between waking and dreaming, the ambiguous nature of reality, black comedy of the shivery sort…. This is Cat Walsh’s native habitat as … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bilingual theatre, Cat Walsh, Edmonton theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre
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A musical window into a tragic world: Children of God, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There have been musicals before now that explored the effects of bi-polar disorder, of bullying, of cultural imperialism and racism, of homophobia, of domestic abuse. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is still controversial; it was written … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Corey Payette, Edmonton theatre, Indigenous drama, residential schools, Truth and Reconciliation, Urban Ink
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The moment of truth for a country: Children of God, a musical about the ripple effect of residential schools
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the musical that opens at the Citadel Thursday, you’ll meet a smart kid with potential and hopes, a dreamer with a sense of possibility. And then school happens. You’ll meet Tom years later, in a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Children of God, Citadel Theatre, Corey Payette, Edmonton theatre, Indigenous drama, residential schools, Urban Ink
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Romantic comedy turns spy thriller: The Romeo Initiative at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Against the odds, it’s happening. He’s been a little late in his entrance but your leading man has appeared, finally. Yes, you’ll star in your own romance, finally. Your footing on the terra firma of being … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Annette Loiselle, Cold War drama, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, The Romeo Iniative, Trina Davies
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A diary, an inheritance, and a struggle come to life in Blood of Our Soil
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How can our land not be fertile when so much blood, both Ukrainian and foreign, has seeped into it?” Five years ago Lianna Makuch discovered a handwritten book that would have a seismic impact on her … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Theatre of the New Heart, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Canadian heritage, Westbury Theatre
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