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Heart and hilarity: Made In Italy at the Citadel, a review

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There has to be a big table. That’s what Salvatore, the eminently hospitable patriarch of the Mantini clan, tells us at the outset of Made In Italy. And that’s what its creator and star Farren Timoteo … Continue reading

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In the beating heart of a big Italian famiglia: Farren Timoteo’s Made In Italy comes home to Edmonton

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Farren Timoteo has always loved being Italian. “To me, it’s always been great!” he declares with his usual spirited good cheer. “Film-making, sports cars, architecture, fashion and food, music!” What’s not to love? That thought — … Continue reading

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Embracing the other: Ubuntu’s cross-cultural journey at the Citadel

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens on the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday wasn’t born, like other plays, in a story, a character, an image. Ubuntu would end up with all of the above, unspooling in dance, movement, music, … Continue reading

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Fun with the famiglia: Farren Timoteo talks about Made in Italy

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Farren Timoteo was seven years old, he arrived home from school one day to be greeted by his dad with the following (delivered in a portentous tone): “I think you’re old enough now.”  Luigi was … Continue reading

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