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“Leaders wanted!” Sing a song of regicide: Freewill’s Macbeth, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Macbeth (Freewill Shakespeare Festival at the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Society) “Leaders Wanted.” “Why Not You?” “Volunteer Here.” At the start of Macbeth, three raffish figures in scavenged combat gear stand onstage holding signs and eyeballing … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2021, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight, Edmonton Fringe Edmonton Fringe 2021, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Splendid Productions
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To be or not to be: Hamlet served six ways, from Thou Art Here Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The time is out of joint (I think we can all agree with Prince of Denmark on that). Isolating, infuriating, anxiety-making, rippling with hints of mortality and “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hamlet, Shakespeare, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre
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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
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the park, summer Shakespeare
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Happy birthday Shakespeare: a pandemical celebration
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” — Hamlet No one ever said he was a repository of positive thinking, … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged Donmar Warehouse, Edmonton theatre, Folger Library, National Theatre At Home, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Globe, Stratford Festival
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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
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare
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Juliet writes her own story: Juliet: A Revenge Comedy. A Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Juliet: A Revenge Comedy (Stage 36, La Cité Auditorium) “I don’t think I’m in Verona any more,” says Juliet. No kidding. Funny how possibilities for travel seem to multiply when you don’t die on purpose, at … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2019, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2019, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Monster Theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's women
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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
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dave Horak, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare romances
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Boys will be boys: taking the mickey out of male bonding in Two Gents, a bitter comedy in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A passing squirrel, who turned his back to the stage, was not convinced. And the wind whispering through the poplars sounded downright skeptical this weekend in the park when a lovestruck young man tore himself away … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Kevin Sutley, Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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