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Happy 4-5-7 Will! With news from the Freewill Shakespeare Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca But soft! We bring you birthday news. The playwright-in-residence at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival celebrates his big 4-5-7 today with with alternate plans for a second pandemic summer. Where there’s a Will there’s a way. “So, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the park, summer Shakespeare
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Just in time for Will’s birthday, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival has a new artistic director: Dave Horak
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Many happy returns, Will. True, the 32nd edition of E-town’s outdoor festival in his honour has, alas, been cancelled this summer, postponed till 2021, and for entirely good reasons. But there’s welcome news to be had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare
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A strange fairy tale, rescued magically by Time from tragedy: The Winter’s Tale in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a strange magic about a play where brute tragedy gives way to pastoral comedy, realism mixes it up with romance, and dramatic scenes abut presentational vaudeville. The Winter’s Tale has the optical weirdness of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare romances
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An exciting new Hamlet for the park: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Is not this something more than fantasy?” The guards on duty in Elsinore are talking about a dead king who’s been appearing nightly from behind his official royal portrait. They’re right on another count, too. Something … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Hunter Cardinal, Marianne Copithorne, Shakespeare tragedy
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The world’s a zany, baffling place: The Comedy of Errors in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At a crucial mistaken-identity moment in The Comedy of Errors — a transaction-gone-askew involving a goldsmith, a chain, and a wayward husband arranging delivery on pricey bling for someone not his wife — a magpie perched … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, farce, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespearean comedy, summer Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
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Taking comedy and tragedy to the park: the Freewill Shakespeare Festival returns
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a vast expanse of theatrical distance between the two shows you’ll see alternating in the outdoor Shakespeare festival that opens tonight in the river valley. Tonight’s show is a comedy, and a farcical one at that; … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hamlet, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Marianne Copithorne, summer Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
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The women run the show: The Merry Wives of Windsor are having a blast in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Dance party! You will never get a more spirited welcome into a play than you do at the start of the Tudor screwball currently hustling across the stage in the Freewill Shakespeare Festival’s summer season in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Falstaff, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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A world of casual bigotry darkens: Freewill Shakespeare Festival revisits The Merchant of Venice. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Vivacious women, high-spirited men, spontaneous dancing, drinks and keep ‘em coming…. Venetian cafe society is in a festive mood at the start of the absorbing production currently bringing one of Shakespeare’s most troubling plays outdoors into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, John Wright, Shylock, summer Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
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Once more unto the park dear friends: the 29th Freewill Shakespeare Festival draws nigh
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The love of summer Shakespeare runs deep in this town. One morning last week, the guest director at this year’s 29th annual Freewill Shakespeare Festival arrived for rehearsal at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Free Will Players, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare problem plays, summer Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor
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