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The broken beauty of Betroffenheit
First I need to tell you that Betroffenheit has one more performance in Edmonton, this afternoon at 2, and it is not quite sold out. Yet. I was fortunate to be able to attend the first performance of this short local run on Friday – Good Friday, which was somewhat fitting. As the Citadel ...
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First I need to tell you that Betroffenheit has one more performance in Edmonton, this afternoon at 2, and it is not quite sold out. Yet. I was fortunate to be able to attend the first performance of this short local run on Friday – Good Friday, which was somewhat fitting. As the Citadel ...
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Memories and witnesses in Blood of Our Soil
One of the powers of live theatre is that it can educate audience members about horrible things that happened or are happening. Sometimes people with privileged and busy lives like mine kind of missed reading about world events or unpleasant parts of history. I’m not sure whether it’...
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One of the powers of live theatre is that it can educate audience members about horrible things that happened or are happening. Sometimes people with privileged and busy lives like mine kind of missed reading about world events or unpleasant parts of history. I’m not sure whether it’...
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A week of re-views
Liz Nicholls did a great post of the year in review in Edmonton theatre. Colin MacLean had a great post of the Best of 2017 too. I’m not organized enough to give you a review of the year, but it occurred to me the other night that this last bit before Christmas has been a […]
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Liz Nicholls did a great post of the year in review in Edmonton theatre. Colin MacLean had a great post of the Best of 2017 too. I’m not organized enough to give you a review of the year, but it occurred to me the other night that this last bit before Christmas has been a […]
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Little Women: the musical
One of my favourite parts of the experience of watching the musical Little Women last night was remembering bits of the story as I watched it happen on stage. I didn’t love Louisa May Alcott’s book when I first encountered it, but I still read it over and over, like many girl-identif...
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One of my favourite parts of the experience of watching the musical Little Women last night was remembering bits of the story as I watched it happen on stage. I didn’t love Louisa May Alcott’s book when I first encountered it, but I still read it over and over, like many girl-identif...
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Les Feluettes at Edmonton Opera
Jean-Michel Richer and Zachary Read in Les Feluettes. Photo by Nanc Price for Edmonton Opera Edmonton Opera’s current production of Les Feluettes, a Canadian opera in French based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard, has one more performance, this Friday October 28th. Bouc...
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Jean-Michel Richer and Zachary Read in Les Feluettes. Photo by Nanc Price for Edmonton Opera Edmonton Opera’s current production of Les Feluettes, a Canadian opera in French based on the play of the same name by Michel Marc Bouchard, has one more performance, this Friday October 28th. Bouc...
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Letters from (and to) A Doll’s House
[caption id="attachment_2886" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tim Marriott, as Torvald, and Nicole English, as Nora, in A Doll's House. Photo Credit Kristen Finlay.[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_2886" align="alignnone" width="300"] Tim Marriott, as Torvald, and Nicole English, as Nora, in A Doll's House. Photo Credit Kristen Finlay.[/caption]
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Fringe 2017 – the last weekend
A Beautiful View – Perry Gratton directed Nikki Hulowski and Samantha Jeffreys in this Daniel MacIvor script, a lovely celebration of a hard-to-label relationship between two women. “You have to be very organized to be bisexual”, the one explains to herself/the audience while de...
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A Beautiful View – Perry Gratton directed Nikki Hulowski and Samantha Jeffreys in this Daniel MacIvor script, a lovely celebration of a hard-to-label relationship between two women. “You have to be very organized to be bisexual”, the one explains to herself/the audience while de...
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Super powers of various kinds
Another little change at this year’s Fringe festival is that an artist pass or volunteer pass works as an ETS transit pass. It used to be that artists and volunteers could request a separate transit pass. I had the impression that they had a limited number of passes, so I usually didnR...
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Another little change at this year’s Fringe festival is that an artist pass or volunteer pass works as an ETS transit pass. It used to be that artists and volunteers could request a separate transit pass. I had the impression that they had a limited number of passes, so I usually didnR...
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More performance genres at Fringe 2017
Animal Farm Treatment – I have never studied, read, or seen any version of George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, but as with Sartre’s No Exit, I had a general idea of the theme and I knew one line. During Animal Farm Treatment, a solo show by creator/performer Alice Nelson from Ca...
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Animal Farm Treatment – I have never studied, read, or seen any version of George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, but as with Sartre’s No Exit, I had a general idea of the theme and I knew one line. During Animal Farm Treatment, a solo show by creator/performer Alice Nelson from Ca...
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Fringe solos and classics
Fringe 2017 is somewhere around half over. Around this time I start realizing I can’t see everything I should see – I can’t even see everything I want to see. I don’t think I can fit in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and I can’t find a time ...
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Fringe 2017 is somewhere around half over. Around this time I start realizing I can’t see everything I should see – I can’t even see everything I want to see. I don’t think I can fit in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, and I can’t find a time ...
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Another couple of days at the Fringe
One of the things I do at the Fringe each year is watch for the little improvements that make things run more smoothly and more fairly. Like at Folkfest, another 30+ year tradition in Edmonton, the tweaks are small but always done to make things more fair, more convenient, and more fun. Last ye...
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One of the things I do at the Fringe each year is watch for the little improvements that make things run more smoothly and more fairly. Like at Folkfest, another 30+ year tradition in Edmonton, the tweaks are small but always done to make things more fair, more convenient, and more fun. Last ye...
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Start of Edmonton Fringe 2017
Here are a few notes on shows I’ve seen so far, in alphabetical order by title. Bash’d: A Gay Rap Opera Two talented local performers, Jezec Sanders and Kael Wynn, do a powerfully moving version of Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow’s 2008 rap musical. The beats are slick, the r...
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Here are a few notes on shows I’ve seen so far, in alphabetical order by title. Bash’d: A Gay Rap Opera Two talented local performers, Jezec Sanders and Kael Wynn, do a powerfully moving version of Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow’s 2008 rap musical. The beats are slick, the r...
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Vignettes of Artstrek
Artstrek is a theatre camp for teenagers, run through Theatre Alberta at Red Deer College every July. Today I had the opportunity to observe part of an Artstrek day, and I came away even more impressed by the program and the team than I had been beforehand. A group of students tumbles out of a [...
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Artstrek is a theatre camp for teenagers, run through Theatre Alberta at Red Deer College every July. Today I had the opportunity to observe part of an Artstrek day, and I came away even more impressed by the program and the team than I had been beforehand. A group of students tumbles out of a [...
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Follies, and other celebrations of theatre
Walterdale Theatre’s production of Follies, the 1971 Sondheim musical, opens tonight. I was able to see a preview last night, and I found it touching, sometimes sad, and sometimes so funny that I couldn’t stop giggling. As suits a show about retired showgirls, it has interesting mu...
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Walterdale Theatre’s production of Follies, the 1971 Sondheim musical, opens tonight. I was able to see a preview last night, and I found it touching, sometimes sad, and sometimes so funny that I couldn’t stop giggling. As suits a show about retired showgirls, it has interesting mu...
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Opera Nuova’s Carousel
Opera Nuova’s two mainstage productions this year are The Cunning Little Vixen, an opera composed by Leoš Janáček, and Carousel, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Carousel is set in a coastal village in Maine (Wikipedia says in 1873). In the opening scenes, a touring carnival has set u...
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Opera Nuova’s two mainstage productions this year are The Cunning Little Vixen, an opera composed by Leoš Janáček, and Carousel, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Carousel is set in a coastal village in Maine (Wikipedia says in 1873). In the opening scenes, a touring carnival has set u...
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