Tag Archives: Freewill Shakespeare Festival

You’ve got the music in you: a joyful new Twelfth Night at Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O spirit of love! How quick and fresh art thou,” declares a love-struck Duke, glancing heavenward in the early moments of Twelfth Night, the first of the two alternating plays (along with Romeo and Juliet) in … Continue reading →

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‘I had to find my own way in’: Amanda Goldberg directs Twelfth Night at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival

Posted on August 4, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What country, friends, is this? (I, ii, Twelfth Night) Like Viola, the heroine of the Shakespeare comedy in this year’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival, who steps onto the shore of a strange new world, director Amanda Goldberg … Continue reading →

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Ready for your close-up Mr. Shakespeare? The Freewill Shakespeare Festival in a vintage spiegeltent this summer

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This summer, when lovestruck Romeo says “what light from yonder window breaks?” the light will break from stained glass windows and bounce off bevelled mirrors. Starting this week at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, as announced on … Continue reading →

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And now for something completely different: Edmonton artists in a vintage spiegeltent at K-Days

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Magic, as magician Billy Kidd tells us, lives in surprises, in the “not knowing what’s going to happen next.” Now, here’s something unexpected (in a good way). Of all the things you might conceivably be doing … Continue reading →

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K-Days re-imagined: local artists in a vintage spiegeltent at the EXPO Centre

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A beautiful 75-year-old “tent” has magically touched down in a parking lot at the Edmonton EXPO Centre. With the arrival of the vintage hand-crafted “Cristal Palace” spiegeltent and the entertainment it will house this summer starting … Continue reading →

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The Freewill Shakespeare Festival’s new home for the summer: a vintage spiegeltent at Edmonton EXPO Centre

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For their resident playwright, it’s the big 4-5-9. For the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, it’s season 34, and full of mid-play dramatic developments. Evicted from their home stage by the lunatic City plan of a three-YEAR closure … Continue reading →

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Happy 4-5-9 Will! Brush up your Shakespeare with our quiz

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You get to know a lot of people in 459 years. And vice versa. It’s Shakespeare’s birthday today. And the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, evicted from their usual home in Hawrelak Park for a three-YEAR City of … Continue reading →

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Get down and festive, at an Edmonton festival this week

Posted on July 4, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a festive week in Edmonton live entertainment. The moment, both historically and seasonally, is at hand for you to venture forth and join in. It’s a choose-your-festival week; sample widely: the Found Festival, the New … Continue reading →

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Sex in the city, hypocrite puritans, corrupt politicians … who’s ever heard of that? Measure For Measure in the park

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Nancy McAlear’s production of Measure For Measure, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival’s companion piece to A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Hawrelak Park this summer, is a male pole dancer in a cage. It’s … Continue reading →

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More about folly than love: A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings Freewill Shakespeare back to the park. A review

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Blow blow thou winter wind…”  oops, wrong play.  After two years of wandering the town in small-cast entertainments, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival is back on the big stage in Hawrelak Park. And on Tuesday’s blustery, unremittingly … Continue reading →

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