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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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Rites of Passage: a theatre journey
You get so battered by the much-travelled description of theatre — used most enthusiastically by its practitioners — that it “takes you on a journey,” that it’s startling to find a production that’s...
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Fringe review: The Titanic
The Titanic three stars Stage 43, La Cite francophone When the Titanic went down in 1912, the world’s newest, snazziest luxury liner took with it the vestiges of the old century and put question marks...
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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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Letters in Wartime, an homage to our history, is back tonight
There can be no better locale for Letters in Wartime than the Alberta Aviation Museum, where it’s running tonight through Remembrance Day. This moving, lyrical two-hander by Kenneth Brown and hockey...
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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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Play Slam, the hand-to-hand combat for playwrights
We’ve seen poets and other gladiators compete to the death for supremacy. Play Slam, returning Saturday to Workshop West for the second year, gives us the, er, dramatic spectacle of a playwright...
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