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2011/2012 Season |
Book on Tape | Alberta Opera’s Pinocchio | Falling: A Wake | HROSES: An Affront to Reason | The Christmas Carol Project
Lig & Bittle | Waiting for Godot | Realtors® Expanse Movement Arts Festival
Book on Tape
Trent Wilkie
October 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 2011
8 PM
Tickets: $10
PCL Studio Theatre | Show rating: PG +14 | Running time: 90 minutes
Book On Tape is the story of ... a book on tape. A comedic jaunt into the world of pulp science fiction, BOT tells the tale of a man sent back in time to convince a young lady to travel to Mars ... and save humanity!
Alberta Opera’s
Pinocchio
Adapted by: Jeff Unger and Farren Timoteo
Music by: Jeff Unger
Directed by: Farren Timoteo
October 27, 28, November 4, 2011 @ 7 PM
October 29, 30, 2011 @ 2 PM
Adult: $18 | Student/Senior: $15 | Child: $12.50
Westbury Theatre
Prepare to be whisked away to the scenic hills of sunny Italy where magic and adventure collide in a new adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s classic tale!
Geppetto, a lonely puppet maker, spends his days and nights at work in his shop consumed by one simple wish: the company of a son. His greatest dream is realized when his favorite creation, Pinocchio, is magically brought to life!
Without his strings, Pinocchio cannot be contained and leaves home to experience the thrills of life and freedom first-hand. But when the world turns out to be more trouble than he expected, Pinocchio realizes that he needs Geppetto just as much as Geppetto needs him.
Touring Alberta schools November 2011 to June 2012
Book online through Alberta Opera 
60 minutes
Falling: A Wake
Wishbone Theatre
November 16 [*preview], 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 2011 at 8 PM
November 19, 26, 2011 at 2 PM
Adult: $20 | Student / senior / equity member: $15
*Preview: $15
PCL Studio Theatre | Show rating: PG | Running time: 90 minutes
Harold and Elsie live on an isolated farm out of unnamed town. A jet explodes 6 miles above, scattering debris over a 200 square mile area. The body of a young man, still strapped in his seat, lands in their yard. Over the course of the night they make a home around the body, and in doing so, the mysterious stranger effects a strange transformation in his hosts.
Falling: A Wake is a haunting and at times surprisingly funny play inspired by actual events.
HROSES: An Affront to Reason
Azimuth Theatre | The Maggie Tree
December 8 [preview], 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 2011
8 PM
December 11, 18, 2011 performances are Pay What You Can
[valid in person only, 1 hour prior to performance at TransAlta Arts Barns Box Office]
2 PM
Adult: $15 | Student / senior / artist: $12
PCL Studio Theatre | Show rating: Mature | Running time: 75 minutes
You are invited to witness a stand-off. Lily (the pale granddaughter of a paper matriarch) vs. Ellery (born underground during an eclipse of the sun) in a fierce battle that alters the shape and position of the heart. This is a timeless story about star-crossed lovers told through the kaleidoscope of magical realism; a paper farm, a sugar mine, a thousand years in a single moment.
HROSES: An Affront to Reason is a beautiful, brutal and fantastical immersion in the eternals of love and war.
The Christmas Carol Project
Brass Monkey Productions
December 28, 29, 2011
8 PM
Advance: $30 | Door: $35
Westbury Theatre | Show rating: General Audience
Running time: 150 minutes [incl. 15-minute intermission]
Since its inception in 1996, The Christmas Carol Project has seen more than 60 performances, four tours, a CD and an award-winning television special. The show features an extremely talented cast of Edmonton-based musicians who have created a collection of songs written from the perspectives of their characters.
The cast includes Bill Bourne, Kevin Cook, Maria Dunn, Tom Roschkov, Terry Morrison, Al Brant, Dale Ladouceur and Bill Hobson. They are joined by narrator Dave Clarke.
Lig & Bittle
Concrete Theatre
By Elyne Quan & Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull
Directed by Tracy Carroll
Friday, January 27, 2012 @ 7 PM
Saturday, January 28, 2012 @ 11 AM and 2 PM
Adult: $18 | Student/Senior: $15 | Child: $12.50
Westbury Theatre
Lig & Bittle is about two people trying to find their place in a hard-to-fit-in world.
Lig, who is big, and Bittle, who is little, are invited to Perfeckt Phitt — a mysterious place where they will fit in. On their adventure they discover many things about themselves, about friendship and about what it means to be different from those around you.
This engaging and energetic production celebrates the diversity in all of us.
“Lig & Bittle is a charmer of a physical comedy about the desire to blend in. The writing is deft, light, non-preachy and knowing.”
-Liz Nicholls, Edmonton Journal
2002 Sterling Award winner!
Ian Jackson, Epic Photography
50 minutes with a 5 – 10 minute Q & A
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Waiting for Godot
The Godot Co–op
February 1*[preview], 2, 3, 4, 7*, 8, 9, 10, 11, 2012
8 PM
February 4*, 11*, 2012
2 PM
*Pay What You Can
[*valid in person only, 1 hour prior to performance at TransAlta Arts Barns Box Office]
Adult: $23 | Student / senior / equity member: $19
Westbury Theatre | Show rating: PG
Running time: 2.5 hours [including one 15-min. intermission]
Two friends alone on a road, wait for someone who is sure to arrive. Today. Or tomorrow. Most definitely tomorrow. If not today.
A tree.
Wait. Eat. Juggle. Sing. Wait. Remove one’s boots. Wait. Repent. Embrace. Remove one’s hat. Wait. Do nothing. Dance. Sleep. Wait. Decide. Forget. Remember. Forget. Wait.
Repeat.
Local theatre artists tackle the most important play of the last hundred years. In our accelerated culture — full of information but wanting wisdom, having experience but missing the meaning — does Beckett’s masterpiece matter anymore? Do we ...?
Realtors® Expanse Movement Arts Festival
Azimuth Theatre
March 7 – 10, 2012
Single: $15 | Day pass [Thu. or Fri.]: $25 | Day pass [Saturday]: $35
Festival pass: $70
*March 7 Cabaret admission included with Day and Festival passes.
Cabaret patrons without passes: $5 at door.
Westbury Theatre | Show rating: General Audience
Expanse is a dance– and body–based performance festival produced and presented by Azimuth Theatre. Expanse exists to inspire, investigate and showcase new work in dance– and body–based performance, bringing artists and audiences from diverse backgrounds together in the spirit of innovation.
Expanse defines a movement art as any art form that approaches the physical body as the main site of creation and/or inspiration. Dance certainly falls into this category, as do dance theatre, aerial and circus arts, mime, slapstick comedy, performance art and dance for film.
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