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Sex in the city, hypocrite puritans, corrupt politicians … who’s ever heard of that? Measure For Measure in the park
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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Tagged "problem comedies, 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Measure For Measure, summer Shakespeare
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More about folly than love: A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings Freewill Shakespeare back to the park. A review
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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Will goes fringing: Freewill Shakespeare Festival takes their resident playwright to the Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For more than three decades, they’ve camped out in the river valley every summer with the world’s most famous playwright. And they’ve shown off their artist-in-residence in big full-bodied productions under the Heritage Amphitheatre canopy. For … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heritage Amphitheatre, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Splendid Productions
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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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