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S6E4: Hinky & the Holograms (with Shakespeare!)
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S6E4: Hinky & the Holograms (with Shakespeare!)
Guests abound this episode, as Brian Webb Dance Company kicks off its 41st season with the frenetic and stunning visuals of Ralph Escamillan’s Hinkypunk. Then, we receive a very special drop-in review of Studio Theatre’s Richard III with mom ‘n’ daughter team Karen and Eli...
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S6E3: Express thru India via YEG
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S6E3: Express thru India via YEG
Guest reviewer Soni Dasmohapatra joins Fawnda for a rollicking review of Alberta Ballet’s presentation of Taj Express, a straight-from-Mumbai Bollywood ballet/musical sorta show. Also: We get the crash course in Indian dance styles that we’ve always wanted. Thanks Soni! I Don’t G...
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S6E2: Layers of onions and clowns
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S6E2: Layers of onions and clowns
Paul’s had a busy week! In addition to some reflections on being part of Play the Fool’s cabaret spectacular, he also caught Teatro’s season closer, Vidalia. Did you know that onions have layers? Enjoy! I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, p...
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S6E1: Measuring the Year
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S6E1: Measuring the Year
Fawnda and Paul kick off our sixth season with a review of Broadway Across Canada’s production of Rent and look ahead to what’s coming up in Edmonton’s 2019/20 performance season. I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB.
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S5E36: The Reviewers’ Revue
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It’s closing weekend of Where the Wild things Fringe, and Fawnda is joined by a panel of writers from Beer Tent Reviews to discuss highlights, lowlights, and happenings at this year’s festival grounds. Their discussion includes: holdovers, Sterling Award bets, star-rating bell curves,...
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S5E35: Let the Fringe Fuss Begin
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S5E35: Let the Fringe Fuss Begin
Fawnda and Paul venture downtown to try out Carmen (again)! Following their road trip to the Badlands last summer, this year’s Mercury Opera production was set in two historic haunts: Act one was set at everyone’s favourite greasy spoon, The Commodore, followed by Act two at Chez Pier...
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S5E34: Summer Spectators Cash In
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S5E34: Summer Spectators Cash In
The Citadel Theatre’s summer experiment, Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, is up and running, and Andrew joined in to notice that the titular song wasn’t even written by Cash—among other things. Also, Paul gives a full report of his time as a performer at the Toronto Fringe. Bri...
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S5E33: The Sinister, Surprising, Very Adorable Bad Seed
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S5E33: The Sinister, Surprising, Very Adorable Bad Seed
Fawnda and Colleen brave the Streetfest crowds outside the Varscona to catch Teatro la Quindicina’s remount of The Bad Seed, a 1950s psychological thriller/melodrama/creepy comedy. What a twist ending! (No spoilers either!) I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast N...
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S5E32: The Season in Review
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S5E32: The Season in Review
It’s the end of the theatre season—which means it’s time for Paul to join the Fringe circuit! On the way to the airport we re-cap favourite moments and winners from the Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award show, and other happenings throughout the #YEG performance year. I Don’t Get It ...
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S5E31: Two Jerks. One Crab. Many Sheep.
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S5E31: Two Jerks. One Crab. Many Sheep.
It’s an all-Italian Summer for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival this year. Fawnda takes guests Matthew Stepanic and Andrea Anderson on a jaunt to the (very damp) Hawrelak Park for the company’s re-imagined Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the endearing pastoral clime of The Winter’...
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S5E30: The Improvised Everything Episode
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S5E30: The Improvised Everything Episode
It’s an extravaganza of improvised delights this week as Fawnda takes guest Andrea Anderson on her very first foray into contemporary dance at BWDC‘s The Liminal. And, it wouldn’t be an improv episode without taking in a night at Improvaganza, Rapid Fire Theatre‘s annual f...
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S5E29: Likely Stories, Sterling Noms, and Other Consonants
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S5E29: Likely Stories, Sterling Noms, and Other Consonants
In this episode we step into the quirky, continent-traversing world of Stewart Lemoine’s latest play, A Likely Story. Then, Paul takes in a bit of #NXTFST, and Fawnda takes a road trip to see Marienbad at TDT (Toronto Dance Theatre), and we muse on the Sterling Awards’ new non-gendere...
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S5E28: Pinter & Performance Art
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S5E28: Pinter & Performance Art
Pip-pip, we’re back, and off to Pinterland! Classical correspondent Colleen Feehan visits to discuss Broken Toys Theatre’s mounting of Betrayal, while Paul and Fawnda venture out to cake their shoes in hair and salt at Zero Gravity, a new performance art festival held in collaboration...
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S5E27: Hell is empty, and the devils are just fine
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S5E27: Hell is empty, and the devils are just fine
‘Twas a night of saluting Billy Shakes, moving storytellers, and also lovers/haters of whatever you think iambic pentameter is, was, or could be. We took in the Citadel Theatre’s The Tempest this week, which boggled and delighted all the senses. I Don’t Get It is a proud member o...
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S5E26: The Empress, The PM, The Spins
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S5E26: The Empress, The PM, The Spins
On the heels of last week’s election, we go on aptly timed flashback tour to 1969 as drag queen activist ted northe rubs shoulders with an ambitious Pierre Trudeau in Darrin Hagen’s The Empress and the Prime Minister. Then, to wrap up Easter Weekend we’re joined by multidiscipli...
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