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Keeping it Canuck: a summer theatre trip east, this side of the border
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A funny thing happened on the way to NYC, and a 12thnight summer working holiday tradition in that great theatre city. Actually, not funny at all. A country came unravelled in unthinkable ways, the whole world … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, George Bernard Shaw, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Robert Lepage, Shaw Festival, Stratford Festival
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Your invitation into a world of dreams: Peter Hinton-Davis directs a chamber version of Das Rheingold at Edmonton Opera
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The dream is as epic as the world, and as small as … a ring. Das Rheingold, the opening gambit in Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera Ring Cycle, is the grand finale of Edmonton Opera’s 60th anniversary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton opera, Edmonton theatre, Shaw Festival, The Ring Cycle, Wagner operas
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The delectable fun of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a glum age where the things to be serious about are piling up by the second, there is something inspirational about launching a season with a comedy whose airy architecture is built, rock solid, on … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Oscar Wilde, Shaw Festival, The Importance of Being Earnest
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‘A new bounce in its step’: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Citadel relocates to the ’50s. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time the distinguished director Jackie Maxwell was in town — working at the Citadel for the first time, amazingly, in 2018 — she brought to the stage a darkly funny, disturbing group portrait of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Oscar Wilde, Shaw Festival
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The startling topicality of Trouble in Mind, at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1957, day 1 of rehearsal for a new Broadway melodrama with an anti-lynching message. And in the opening scene of Trouble in Mind a veteran Black actress is giving pre-rehearsal pointers to a young Black … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alice Childress, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival
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Mad as hell: Network launches the Citadel season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The word “prescient” has been floating over the Citadel for weeks now, threading through rehearsals for the play getting its Canadian premiere Thursday on the Shoctor stage. It’s attached to a (very) dark comedy satire about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lee Hall, Paddy Chayefsky, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival
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Jane Eyre steps off the page and onto the Citadel stage, in a new Erin Shields adaptation
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” — Jane Eyre In the new play getting its world premiere at the Citadel Thursday … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Charlotte Brontë, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Erin Shields, Jane Eyre, Shaw Festival, Soulpepper, Stratford Festival, theatrical adaptations
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The terrors of family life: Jackie Maxwell directs The Humans at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I thought I’d be settled by my age, but, man, it never ends…. Dontcha think it should cost less to be alive?” Now there’s an open-ended question for the angsty existentialists among you. It’s put to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jackie Maxwell, Shaw Festival, Stephen Karam, The Humans
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