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PlaySlam at Workshop West
We’ve seen poets stand and deliver in slams; ditto story writers. These are vicious competitors! We’ve flinched, we’ve roared, we’ve been flung back into our seats, etc.. Now, playwrights get a turn to...
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The apocalyptic vision of Jason Chinn
I tell you this: you can actually find yourself horror-struck while in attendance at Ladies Who Lynch. You can actually discover that you’re shrieking. When does that happen in theatre? And it’s...
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Springboards: off the page and on their feet
This weekend Brad Fraser is back at the theatre where his 1989 breakthrough hit got its Edmonton premiere. The play was Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature of Love. And the sensational...
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Review: Double Double at Workshop West
The romantic comedy industry worldwide, on screen and stage, is all about setting up obstacles to inevitability. Romantic comedies involving the less-than-young are all about the baggage. The two...
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Canoe Festival 2014
Workshop West has announced the line-up for this year’s edition of their annual curated Canoe Theatre Festival, billed as “theatre that rocks the boat” and specializing in whitewater offerings in...
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Café Daughter gets its Alberta première
There was nothing complacently Canuck about the story of cultural identity that Cree playwright Kenneth T. Williams stumbled across a decade and a half ago. At its heart was a trajectory of aboriginal...
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Reclaiming identity against the odds: Cafe Daughter
“What am I afraid of?” asks the character we meet in the first moment of Café Daughter, as she steps into the fraught and haunted world of her younger self. It’s 1957 on the Canadian Prairies. And...
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Love, trauma and other matters: welcome to Edmonton's new Chinook Series
In 1996, a retired couple in their late 60s was driving from Calgary to their rustic family cabin at Gull Lake when it happened: a random act with terrible consequences. A car somehow ended up on the...
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