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The return of the Theatre 6-Pack
Teatro La Quindicina 2000 production of The Hothouse Prince. Summer refreshment patterns are a tip-off: the classic cultural pattern of the 6 pack is a deal. Theatre 6 Pack, an Edmonton invention with...
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Poet laureate turned playwright: Pierrette Requier's Les Blues des oubliées
“French is stuck here! In my heart!”,” declares Edmonton’s new bilingual poet laureate in her perfect English, pointing by way of emphasis. “It’s a heartfelt thing.” That’s what Pierrette Requier...
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Review: Les Blues des oubliées, an homage to bilingual roots
You can actually see the prairie wind blow in Les Blues des Oubliées, by Edmonton’s poet laureate Pierrette Requier. In Brian Dooley’s inventively poetic production, it ripples across empty golden...
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Flora and Fawna's Field Trip: Edmonton's Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt go...
“We have new dresses!” says Darrin Hagen. “Same style, better fabric!” says Trevor Schmidt. This makes them happy. Nearly as happy as the stage manager’s gift of an entire set of fuzzy stickers with...
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Edmonton's L'UniThéâtre ventures into opera
The show that opens Friday at La Cité francophone propels an unusual collaboration onto the Edmonton theatre scene. La Voix Humaine is the joint work of Edmonton’s resourceful francophone theatre...
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The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux, in English and en français
In the play that opens Thursday at La Cité francophone in English and Friday in French, an elderly retired plumber ardently pursues his boyhood crush of yesteryear. “What I’m going to say is tragically...
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Plumbing charm: The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux
“It’s much easier to scramble eggs than to unscramble them,” declares retired master plumber Narcisse Mondoux late in the romantic comedy devoted to his courtship of a patrician village widow. The...
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Perception launches the new L'UniTheatre season
Theatre artists of every size, weight and personality know that amazing things can happen when you say Yes (or Oui, or both), instead of the alternative. When choreographer Caroline Rouleau approached...
View ArticleDo This in Memory of Me: Cat Walsh's latest play debuts
What if prayers were answered? I’m not talking about getting that pony you had fervently hoped for on your birthday, or having the cute barista at Starbucks finally respond to your entreaties. No....
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L'UniThéâtre reveals culture of humanity through universal language of story
L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s largest French language theatre, launches its latest season next week with a new artistic director. Billy Les Jours de hurlement (Billy The Days of Howling), opens on Oct. 12...
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