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S5E10: Mulling Plastic Flowers & Mixed Signals
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S5E10: Mulling Plastic Flowers & Mixed Signals
We split forces these past two weeks to catch Plastic Orchid Factory’s Digital Folk at Spazio Performativo and Good Women Dance Collective’s new full-length presentation of The Signal at their annual Convergence showcase. And, we begin our lament on the announcement that Vue Weekly, t...
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S5E9: Great Expectations: The Bone House and Wen Wei Wang in YEG
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S5E9: Great Expectations: The Bone House and Wen Wei Wang in YEG
Two highly hyped productions on the ‘cast this week: Marty Chan’s The Bone House gets a remount at the Varscona Hotel, and Ballet Edmonton debuts their first works with Wen Wei Wang. Did either meet our great expectations? Listen in to find out! I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the...
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S5E8: Blood, Love, Connections, Exchanges
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S5E8: Blood, Love, Connections, Exchanges
Fawnda gets back in the swing with the “twinly magic” of The Maggie Tree’s production of Blood: A Scientific Romance, before getting Paul all riled up about the new Arts & Heritage Plan proposed to city council by the Edmonton Arts Council this week. They have some thoughts....
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S5E7: Embalming Lenin
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S5E7: Embalming Lenin
This week Paul and special guest host, Suzie Martin sit down to discuss Studio Theatre’s production of Lenin’s Embalmers by Vern Thiessen.  Plus, we chat about the World Cafe discussion series being hosted by Citadel Theatre. Check it out! I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alber...
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S5E6: Dogs in Space and a Rage Baby
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S5E6: Dogs in Space and a Rage Baby
Fawnda is away this week, leaving Paul and Andrew to hold down the fort. In this episode we look at the existential dread of knowing your pet will one day die in Ainsley Hillyard’s Jezebel at the Still Point. Then we’re joined by Lindsay Eales, co-artistc director of CRIPSiE, to discu...
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S5E5: Playing Fools with Attakkalari
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S5E5: Playing Fools with Attakkalari
We catch Bangalore’s Attakkalari Dance Company as part of the BWDC’s season, and the final full day of Play The Fool—with particular interest in their conversation on consent in interactive performance. News bits include the recent Senate appointments and RAM’s big opening day. ...
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S5E4: Falling Slowly for Leonard Cohen
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S5E4: Falling Slowly for Leonard Cohen
Between swills of coffee following the Nuit Blanche all-nighter we cover two big ol’ season openers: BJM Danse swung through town to open Alberta Ballet’s 52nd season with Dance Me, a contemporary tribute to Leonard Cohen, and Paul caught the Citadel Theatre’s launch of Once, th...
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Season 4 Episode 29
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It’s a peanut butter and jam-slammed episode of #yegarts news, Sterlings chatter, classical Kathak in KHOJ, and a very special drop-in by Trent Wilkie from The Undad to talk about Concrete Theatre‘s Sprouts Festival and theatre for kidlets. Also Fawnda attempts to describe seeing Ange...
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Season 4 Episode 28
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Season 4 Episode 28
  The sound booth gets a little snug this week as we’re joined by Karen Unland and Elizabeth Spencer (from That’s a Thing?! podcast) to chat about the Citadel Young Company‘s Bat Boy: The Musical. Then Paul gives us his take on David Byrne‘s visit to the Jubilee Audit...
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Season 4 Episode 27
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It’s a full-time week for guest Laura Raboud as we take in Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story at the Citadel Theatre, then hunker in for the befuddling, heart-churning experience of Collin Doyle’s new play, Terry and the Dog. What a time to be alive in #yegarts. Become a Patron!  
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Season 4 Episode 26
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This week we catch Alberta Ballet’s All Of Us (ie: The Tragically Hip portrait ballet) in all its post-apocalyptic, dread-headed glory. Does it do Downie justice? Do we win the war? Is it even ballet? We try to answer these questions in the post-show parkade. Do we succeed? You tell us! I D...
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Season 4 Episode 25
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Season 4 Episode 25
Guests galore on a big show week: Ainsley Hillyard drops in to chat about Shumka’s collaboration with Indigenous artists in Ancestors & Elders, while Laura Raboud enlightens us on the musical trappings of the Citadel Theatre/Banff Centre production of The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story ...
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Season 4 Episode 24
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A week of wonder and juxtaposition: We ramble on physics and music (Theatre Network‘s Infinity); clapping and gravitas (Jairo Barrull Flamenco Company); and the gut-wrenching, mind-stilling Pretty Goblins at Workshop West. We have e bet that one will win a governor General’s Award. Ca...
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Season 4 Episode 22
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In the post #MeToo era, what are we allowed to think of a comic fromp like Don Giovanni? Special guest Colleen Feehan joins Fawnda to dissect the goosebumpy moments of this most classically rapey-y of operas. I Don’t Get It is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. Become ...
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Season 4 Episode 21
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Season 4 Episode 21
We tackle Tiny Bear Jaws‘ production of Cleave, a play by bright young writer/producer Elena Belyea, where six characters work through identity issues from the inside out. Be forewarned, there’s adult content (but is it really?). Also we mull over new developments on YEG’s venue...
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