Tag Archives: Freewill Shakespeare Festival

On the road again: the Freewill Shakespeare Festival takes The Tempest to community league hockey rinks this summer

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,/ Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not….” The Tempest, Act III, scene 2 The Freewill Shakespeare Festival has taken its game resident playwright on … Continue reading →

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023 (part 2). Here’s a small assortment (in no particular order) of highlights — moments, performances, bright ideas, experiences — of the year of live theatre on Edmonton stages. Home sweet home. 2023 was the year.… … Continue reading →

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2023: The year in Edmonton theatre, part 1, the play’s the thing

Posted on December 18, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2023. It was the year a small Edmonton theatre company with new artistic directors and an affirmative declaration for a name, devised an original way to remind us of the remarkable breadth of the performance scene … Continue reading →

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Fun (really!) with Hamlet: The Play’s The Thing, an inspired Theatre Yes 2-night production

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Well, THAT was fun!. A word that is only rarely (I need hardly remind you) applied to productions of Hamlet. The first night of The Play’s The Thing, Theatre Yes’s two-night production of Shakespeare’s longest, most … Continue reading →

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‘Celebrate amazingness!’ The Play’s The Thing has 20 Edmonton stage companies do Hamlet

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Talk about a hold on the collective consciousness. For 400-plus years the world has been wondering, and arguing, analyzing and thinking about Hamlet, the most celebrated and mysterious of plays by history’s most celebrated and mysterious … Continue reading →

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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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