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Theatre
Jewel tells a tale of loss on Valentine's Day 2010-02-04 - Theatre - The year is 1985 and Marjorie Clifford is telling the story of a tragedy that occurred three years prior -- the sinking of the offshore oil rig Ocean Ranger. Like the Titanic, the Ocean Ranger was deemed unsinkable, yet it went down not far from where the Titanic sank. Jewel, a production put on by The Attic Players, directed by Jacqueline Russell and starring Alynn Trottier, relates this unfortunate tale. The one-woman show centres on Clifford, widowed by the catastrophic event just off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982. More... Learn to mend a broken heart in Lunchbox Theatre's Mr. Fix It 2010-02-04 - Theatre - Some people might think that the play Mr. Fix It is just another feel good romantic comedy -- and they're right. Long time Calgary playwright Caroline Russell-King wrote Mr. Fix It for Lunchbox Theatre in the hopes that people will be able to "have a break, to have a laugh, that's what Lunchbox is all about." More...  Ground Zero Theatre ain't selling outTheatre company responds to criticisms with latest play 2009-11-12 - Theatre - Ground Zero Theatre is hoping to teach their audience something with their latest production: success and selling out are not necessarily the same thing. Speed the Plow, written by David Mamet, is the story of Bobby Gould (Trevor Leigh), a Hollywood producer conflicted between a money-making, action-packed, soul-destroying film and an artsy picture. Ryan Luhning plays Charlie Fox, the man with everything to lose. Charlie approaches Bobby with the latest, hottest actor who is an extremely successful action hero. More...  Calgary actors air out their Dirty Laundry2009-11-05 - Theatre - On Monday nights, Calgary theatres go dark to allow the actors to rest up for the week of hard work ahead. But since 1999, some brave actors have used these breaks to craft engaging and entertaining serialized improvisational theatre. "It gives us a chance to just play," says Karen Johnson-Diamond, cofounding producer of Dirty Laundry. "We really do it for fun. We call it our actors' bowling night. It's just a great way to improve improv skill, but also to just improve your acting altogether and just to have a lot of fun with your friends on stage." More...  30 hours of non-stop sleep-deprived fun2009-09-24 - Theatre - Loose Moose Theater has been entertaining Calgary since its formation in 1977. As well as hitting the local scene, the group has travelled across Canada and around the world, gaining renown for innovation and excellence in improvisational comedy. Loose Moose will raise the bar in their unique genre even further when they host a 30-hour Impro Challenge featuring non-stop, sleep-deprived improvisational thea- ter which will certainly create some entertaining results. "The improv challenge is something where we're going to take about seven people and they're going to be on stage for 30 hours at the theater," says Josh Bertwistle, one of the performers. "And they're going to improvise some improvise theater for 30 hours in a row." More... Ignite! explodes into Calgary 2009-06-11 - Theatre - Sage Theatre's Ignite! Festival is all about showcasing the outstanding talents of an eclectic group of emerging professional artists from all over Canada. Situated in artistically booming Calgary, it offers an opportunity for both diversely talented artists and devoted art appreciators to network and explore what Canadian artists have to offer in the areas of dance, theatre, visual arts and music. "Ignite! in many ways is an opportunity to learn through doing and for artists to apply their skills by creating a show," says festival director Ellen Close. "The festival is a bridge, often for artists who may just be leaving college or a professional training program who are looking to transition into the professional community and so we provide an opportunity for them to learn through doing, but then also be showcased and have industry professionals see their work." More...  Musical Evil Dead a bloody good timeSinging, dancing zombies and a three-row "splatter zone" crawl into Vertigo Theatre 2009-05-21 - Theatre - Rebecca Northan, who stars as Annie in Evil Dead: The Musical, found her love of theatre doing improvisation in Calgary's own Loose Moose Theatre when she was 16 and it remains one of her favourite venues to perform in. A professor once told Northan, a University of Calgary drama graduate, about the importance of getting to know those in her program, as they would eventually be the people she would work with. Fifteen years later, Northan reunites with some fellow U of C drama graduates to put on the theatrical production of Evil Dead: The Musical. More...  Festival helps student artists take flight2009-04-02 - theatre - A performance festival completely run by students. The notion, at first glance, could ring to some as the painful exercise of a rag-tag bunch of "future performers" taking the show out of their parents' basements and onto the stage. The University of Calgary drama department's fifth-annual Taking Flight festival proves otherwise, as artists from the program showcase their polished and hard-worked productions over the course of two weeks. Directing student Anton deGroot took on the task of staging well-known Canadian playwrights Robert LePage and Marie Brassard's Polygraph. The story, based partially on real events from LePage's life, looks at murder and the morality of its portrayal within art. Polygraph is known for its highly cinematic feel and deGroot says he took an unconventional twist on that element. More... Morpheus Theatre looks at Gilbert and Sullivan's lesser known work 2009-03-26 - theatre - All you need is a good sense of humour according to Tim Elliott, the producer of Morpheus Theatre Company, to appreciate their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera Patience. The musical, directed by Richard Michelle-Pentelbury, satirizes the aesthetic movement of the time while telling the story of two rival poets fighting for the love and adoration of Patience (Naomi Williams-Covey), the local milkmaid. Even though Patience was the second longest-running musical in its time, it is now one of the lesser-known musicals in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. However, do not expect anything less than a night brimming with tomfoolery, young maidens, aesthetics and military suitors. "[Patience is] when your wishes are granted," says Elliott. More...  Identity, memory, death and desire2009-03-12 - theatre - What do death, desire and the Canadian west all have in common? Mark Lawes, the founding artistic director of Theatre Junction, and the Resident Company of Artists may have your answer in their continuing performance ensemble piece entitled On The Side of the Road. The eclectic group of artists are presenting their work as a second instalment in a trilogy dealing with the themes of identity, memory, death and desire. Audiences will be in for a diverse night of theatre that is sure to attract people from all over. The Gauntlet spoke with Laws about the project. More...  Wilde's words hit Theatre Calgary2009-03-05 - theatre - Oscar Wilde may have a reputation for appealing to snotty academics, but Theatre Calgary is hoping to show there's more to him than that. Packed with wit and loaded with thoughtful themes, An Ideal Husband showcases Wilde's talents on stage. Actor Christopher Hunt believes it will make an impression. "When they think of Oscar Wilde, they think of a guy who wrote 100 years ago who went to prison for homosexuality and died a terrible death," he says. "They might not know the kind of things he wrote. He's an amazingly brilliant writer." More...  Grief and the environmentTree Hugger looks at on losing a loved one and the urban sprawl 2009-03-05 - theatre - Protesting at the top of a tree is the newest form of grief therapy in Urban Curvz's upcoming production of Ayla Stephen's Tree Hugger. The show stars Stephen herself as a woman mourning the loss of her lover to cancer all the while taking a stand against pollution and overdevelopment. "My inspirations come from a few different things, like all the development that's going on in Calgary right now and all the commercialism," she says. "In the new communities, they have all those mini malls to make things more convenient for them even though we have a million of them all over the place. [There is a large] effect that this is having on the environment in terms of how big the city is-- there's an urban sprawl, so you need a car to get anywhere and transit sucks in this city. The emissions from that [negatively] affect the human body." More...  Celebrating the trailer court culture2009-02-26 - theatre - Life in the land of mobile homes is not always as Trailer Park Boys makes it out to be. Lunchbox Theatre's production of Darrin Hagen's Tornado Magnet shows that trailer court living is often more about camaraderie and community than white-trash, drunken shenanigans-- though some people in the park do know how to party. The show is a dialogue with trailer maven Dotty Parsons on the families in her court, the trailer park class system and the trials and tribulations that come along with living in an easily-movable abode. Director Kate Newby says she was immediately interested in taking on the project. More...  Sage Theatre tackles child loss in Frozen2009-02-26 - theatre - The loss of a child is heart breaking. It's traumatic and painful and the after effects lead to a state of pain and remorse-- a frozen portrait of loss. In Bryony Lavery's Frozen, opening at the Pumphouse Theatre on Feb. 26, Nancy must eventually confront the killer of her little girl, a demented pedophile named Ralph. More...  U of C spins Shakespeare classic2009-02-12 - theatre - Love, betrayal and stress are all feelings that present day university students face during their university years. William Shakespeare understood this when he wrote Hamlet and managed to express these emotions in a very human way that, literally, people of all ages could relate to in some way. The University of Calgary drama department will channel his words Feb. 17-28 as they embark on their own version of the play. U of C has never attempted one of Shakespeare's four big plays (Macbeth, King Lear, Othello and Hamlet) and director Patrick Finn says they're adding in a twist. More... More Theatre Forward > |
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