Tag Archives: Wild Side Productions
A season on Edmonton stages: a look back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Jabberwocky, the latest from the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (at Theatre Network this past season), a drum roll announces the parting of a red velvet theatre curtain. Which opens to reveal … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Atlas Theatre, Bright Young Things, Canadian Stage, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, Fort Edmonton Park, Kill Your Television Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Lewis Carroll, Northern Light Theatre, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Punctuate! Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Plain Jane Theatre, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Onstage: a weekend theatre update
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your weekend could include a musical. There’s a couple to choose from, and though both are a challenge (for very different reasons) for the form, they’re at opposite ends of the musical spectrum •One of the … Continue reading
Can life move forward after great trauma? Poison, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The unexpected thing about Poison isn’t its intensity. After all, its starting point is unimaginable loss. No, the unexpected thing about Poison, as you’ll see in this stunningly acted Wild Side production directed by Jim Guedo, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Lot Vekemans, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
The byways of grief: director Jim Guedo talks about Poison
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight in the Roxy Performance Series introduces audiences here to an award-winning Dutch playwright whose reputation continues to expand in Europe and around the world in eight languages (to date). Poison, Lot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dutch theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Lot Vekemans, Wild Side Productions
Theatre Network’s 43rd season opens with a Trout premiere
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!/ The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun/ The frumious Bandersnatch!” — Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found Theatre Network ventures through the looking glass … Continue reading
A Sterling year onstage: nominations for Edmonton’s theatre awards
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A musical comedy in which a town and its citizens are transformed by putting on a show — a notion that Edmonton can enthusiastically get behind — proved the top choice of jurors as the 30th … Continue reading
The end of the line in Dublin by night: the poetry of Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Irish triptych: Three brick gangways, with the sinister look of autopsy slabs waiting for a body, up against three brick walls that tip forward and loom. Eerie industrial white noise as static in a dark theatre. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mark O'Rowe, Wild Side Productions
Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Good storytelling isn’t just telling,” says director Jim Guedo. “A good storyteller makes you feel it’s happening in the present…. It’s in the now.” And that ‘now’ gets darker, stranger, more brutal in the fantastical urban … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Irish theatre, Mark O'Rowe, Wild Side Productions
