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The dark glitter of a dream cruise on the River Styx: Pochsy IV. A new Karen Hines satire at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s an unnerving glitter and queasy hilarity to the satire that launches the season at Theatre Network. “I dreamed you, I manifested you,” proposes the figure who appears before us — a tarnished angel? a wicked … Continue reading
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She’s back! Karen Hines’s toxic pixie returns in Pochsy IV, to launch the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s back. We met Pochsy at the Fringe in 1992, a smudgy-eyed chalky-faced kewpie with a lethal mixture of charm and vitriol coursing through her veins — and that sweet Clara Bow smile. In Pochsy’s Lip … Continue reading
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The dizzying optic of All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, a new Karen Hines satire at Shadow. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t have seen anything quite like All The Small Animals I Have Eaten, the play that’s now running in the Shadow Theatre season. And because it’s by Karen Hines, a brilliant original of a satirist, … Continue reading
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All The Little Animals I Have Eaten: a carnivorous Karen Hines satire, at Shadow Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca My name is Frankie, and I will be your server tonight…. All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, the dark and intricate Karen Hines comedy that unsheaths its cutlery tonight at Shadow Theatre takes us to … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, Mump and Smoot, One Yellow Rabbit, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Little Willy: the great marionettist Ronnie Burkett is back, with the raucous Daisy Theatre ensemble, and Shakespeare
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ronnie Burkett is back. Call it a reunion, or maybe a homecoming. The show that opens Wednesday at the Roxy for four performances marks the return to this theatre town, and to Theatre Network, of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, One Yellow Rabbit, Roxy Theatre, The Daisy Theatre, The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, Theatre Network
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Flying too near the sun: the hunger for artistic inspiration in Dora Maar: the wicked one, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Images of fire, flames, burning, melting are everywhere in Dora Maar: the wicked one, a compelling new solo play by Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic (The Drowning Girls, Comrades, Mules) presented by Workshop West Playwrights Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dora Maar, Edmonton theatre, GAL Productions, Gateway Theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Hit & Myth, One Yellow Rabbit, Picasso, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A cutting edge artist in her own right: Dora Maar: the wicked one, at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the solo play that launches the Workshop West Playwrights Theatre season Thursday you’ll meet a remarkable artist, a multi-media groundbreaker in the ‘30s and ‘40s. She was a cutting edge photographer with commercial cred and … Continue reading
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Workshop West announces a new season devoted to Canadian plays and their creators
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre bookends its upcoming 44th “Persistence of Vision” season, announced Thursday, in a way that has always characterized a theatre company devoted to the development and showcasing of new Canadian plays and their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre 2022-2023 season, GAL Productions, High Performance Rodeo, Hit & Myth, One Yellow Rabbit, The Gateway Theatre, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Happy Valentine’s weekend: have some theatre with your champagne
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let’s try to ignore for the moment the origins of Valentine’s Day as a feast day in honour of a martyr, and, more recently, a massacre. Or the source of a bottomless supply of gummy limericks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Angels in America, Calgary theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, High Performance Rodeo, Mile Zero Dance, National Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Stratford Festival, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project
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