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Crime plays: The Ballad of Peachtree Rose, a new thriller from Nicole Moeller, opens the Workshop West season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Who are the monsters?” That’s what playwright Nicole Moeller wonders. It’s what she’s always drawn to wonder in her plays, and the answer is never clear-cut. She asks again in the new high-speed thriller that premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged 12tnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Nicole Moeller, true crime, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Vern Thiessen to leave his post as Workshop West artistic director
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Time to move on,” says Vern Thiessen of his decision after five years to leave his post as artistic director of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, effective Aug. 31. He won’t be leaving Edmonton, though. “I need … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian theatre, Edmonton theatre, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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All about the playwright: Workshop West celebrates the big 4-oh
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was not one of those storied red carpet openings, where everyone knows that history is being made and dresses accordingly. But then, what little Canadian theatre starts that way? Four decades ago, a sometime playwright/ … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brad Fraser, Canadian playwrights, Conni Massing, Edmonton theatre, Frank Moher, Gerry Potter, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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No one’s staying home this weekend: why would you? A wealth of choices on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the U of A’s Studio Theatre, it’s back in the USSR with Lenin’s Embalmers, Vern Thiessen’s black and absurdist 2008 tragicomedy (imagined from a true story) about two competing Jewish biochemists landing the unenviable joint … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ainsley Hillyard, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, L'UniThéâtre, Northern Light Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, U of A drama department, Vern Thiessen, Walterdale Theatre
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Thou Art Where? A roving production of Shakespeare’s Will in a cemetery, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thou Art Here!, a company that does Shakespeare meet-and-greets in unexpected locations, takes us to a graveyard. It’s dusk. Five ghostly women appear through the trees in the distance and come towards us. As the daylight … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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Mrs. Shakespeare gets her voice back, in a graveyard: Shakespeare’s Will with Thou Art Here!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A woman dancing on a grave.” That’s the image that inspired the roving outdoor production of Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will opening Thursday in a cemetery near you, says director Andrew Ritchie. So decisively did that image … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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The art of Indigenous storytelling comes to life: meet Josh Languedoc
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’ve always been a storyteller,” says the Saugeen First Nation playwright/ actor/ improviser/ director Josh Languedoc. “It’s just been there … in my bones.” He can thank his Indigenous heritage, and its great oral tradition for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Avenue Community League, Banff Centre, Edmonton theatre, Indigenous storytelling, Josh Languedoc, Saugeen First Nation, St. Albert Children's Festival, Thousand Faces Mythic Arts Festival, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Bringing Canada to New York: Soulpepper on 42nd Street
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last week in New York I had the excitement of seeing what a top-drawer Canadian theatre company, venturing forth, can bring to the stage in a highly demanding world theatre capital. Coming from away for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 42nd Street, New York Theatre, Of Human Bondage, Pershing Square Signature Centre, Somerset Maugham, Soulpepper Theatre, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Workshop West announces its upcoming 39th season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s upcoming 39th season, announced Thursday, is the world premiere of a new play by Edmonton’s Beth Graham. In Pretty Goblins, by the multi-talented actor/playwright (The Gravitational Pull of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Sound Off, Vern Thiessen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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