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My preview of Regina Little Theatre’s Local Talent…

By Edward Willett in Art Columns, Blog
June 4, 2009
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…was in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: Women today are expected to be beautiful and thin, wonderful mothers and wives, and dedicated to their careers — all at the same time. Those unrealistic expectations drive the plot of Local Talent, Regina Little Theatre’s final production of the season, June 10-13 at the Regina Performing Arts Centre. …

My poster for Follies

By Edward Willett in Blog
April 9, 2009
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I’ve just sent this poster of Lyric Musical Theatre of Regina‘s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies (in which I’ll be playing Buddy) off to be printed. Designing these things is the closest I come to doing art any more. I always enjoy it! Oh, and let this be first notice of the production, if …

My LeaderPost review of Globe Theatre’s Mesa

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 21, 2009
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My LeaderPost review of Globe Theatre’s Mesa, which oddly enough has striking similarities to my CBC review of the same production–go figure!–is online this morning. It begins: Mesa, Globe Theatre’s new mainstage production, is the story of a road trip — a physical journey from Calgary to Arizona, and the metaphorical journey from youth to …

My review of Globe Theatre’s Mesa

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 20, 2009
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Here’s my review of Globe Theatre‘s latest mainstage production, Mesa. This is the script I’ve sent to CBC. Check against delivery today at 4:13 p.m. on the Afternoon Edition.Globe Theatre’s lastest mainstage production is Mesa, by Calgary writer Doug Curtis. It’s a play that takes the audience along on a road trip from Calgary to …

My preview of Globe Theatre’s production of Mesa…

By Edward Willett in Blog
March 12, 2009
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…is in today’s LeaderPost. It begins: The premise of Mesa, which opens at Globe Theatre on March 18, sounds like the setup to a joke: “So this 30-something guy and his 93-year-old grandfather set out on a road trip together to Mesa, Ariz. …” And sure enough, Mesa is a comedy — but not, says …

My preview of the touring production of Annie…

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 26, 2009
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…is in today’s Regina LeaderPost. The story begins: Until late last year, Madison Kerth was just another fifth-grader at Tchefuncte Middle School in Mandeville, La., just north of New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain. But, about the time she turned 11 last October, she left her school to begin living what she describes as “a dream …

My CBC review of Wingfield’s Inferno

By Edward Willett in Blog
February 20, 2009
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Here’s the written version of my review for CBC’s Afternoon Edition today of last night’s opening performance of Wingfield’s Inferno at Globe Theatre. As they say in the political-speech-writing-biz, “check against delivery.” *** Globe Theatre’s latest mainstage offering, Wingfield’s Inferno, opened last night in Regina, and Edward Willett was there to see it. Q. So, …

My review of Globe Theatre’s Sexy Laundry

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 24, 2009
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Last night I attended the opening of Globe Theatre (Regina’s professional theatre-in-the-round)’s latest mainstage offering, Sexy Laundry, directed by Ruth Smillie, in order to review it for CBC Radio’s Afternoon Edition today. Here’s the script I sent them. (It’s not really a transcript, because I didn’t read this word for word, but it’s the gist.) …

Preview of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online

By Edward Willett in Blog
October 9, 2008
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My preview of Globe Theatre‘s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is online now at the LeaderPost. An excerpt: For audiences, it’s not physical vocabulary but Shakespeare’s 400-year-old verbal vocabulary that may intimidate. But Geoffrey Whynot, who plays Theseus and Oberon, points out that “in real life we don’t necessarily hear every word someone speaks. …

Theatre on the Web

By Edward Willett in Blog
January 28, 2008
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Last week’s CBC Web column… *** The gala opening of the new Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon last week had Saskatchewan people thinking about live theatre. Of course, I think about live theatre all the time, since I’m often involved in one production or another as an actor or director, so this week I compiled a …

Photo of the Day: The New Persephone Theatre

By Edward Willett in Blog
December 8, 2007
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We moved into the new Persephone Theatre today. It was certainly an interesting experience, since construction continued unabated while we checked spacing for Beauty and the Beast on stage. Dust hung so thick in the air that, as you can see in the second photo below, many of us were wearing dust masks most of …

I’m a caryatid!

By Edward Willett in Blog
November 23, 2007
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The stage version of Beauty and the Beast, as presented on Broadway, had a cast of roughly two million (that’s just a guess). At Persephone Theatre here in Saskatoon, we have a cast of 14. This means all of us poor players must play in our time many parts. I, for instance, play the Narrator, …