Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Hurry Hard Playwright/s – Kristen Da Silva Production Company/Theatre space – Rosebud Theatre / Rosebud Opera House Length – 2 Acts, 2 hours, 30 mins (one intermission) Plus dinner before the show… Genre/s – Rom com/sit com Premise – A curler, who has been divorced for 7 years, contends with his freeloading (but brave) brother, and a new goodlooking team member to win the bonspiel for Didsbury by enlisting his

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – A Doll’s House Playwright – Henrik Ibsen adapted by Amy Herzog Production Company/Theatre space – (professional) Theatre Calgary, Max Bell Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 2 Acts, 2 hours 30 mins (one 20-minute intermission) Genre/s – Drama Premise – A mother who borrows money to save her husband’s life makes an inadvertent legal error putting her at odds with her husband and exposes herself to blackmail by a

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Gracie Playwright – Joan MacLeod Production Company/Theatre space – (Semi-Professional) Fire Exit Theatre / Engineered Air Theatre, Arts Commons. Length – One Act, 90 minutes, no intermission. Genre/s – Drama Premise – Fleeing the USA, 7-year-old Gracie arrives at a compound in BC for the marriage of her mother to the camp leader of a polygamous cult and we follow her story until she leaves as a shunned 16-year-

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Appropriate Playwright/s – Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins Production Company/Theatre space – (semi-professional) the theatre (yes, the new company is called “the theatre”), 14 th Ave and 2 nd Street SW. Length – Two Acts 2 hours 10 minutes (one intermission) Genre/s – Comi-drama Premise – Three siblings reunite at their father’s plantation to pack up and sell his belongings. Why this play? Why now? – While many in the

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Lazy Susan Playwright/s – Col Cseke Production Company / Theatre space – (Semi-professional) Inside Out Theatre and Handsome Alice / The Big Secret Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 1 Act, 1 hour 50 minutes (no intermission) Genre/s – Drama Premise – A pharmacist (who may or may not be a hoarder) finds solace in after work sojourns to the bar to talk about her life while her bi-racial, legally blind daughter (wh

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – A Killing Snow Playwright – Paul Ciufo Production Company/Theatre space – (Professional)Vertigo Theatre / The Playhouse Length – 2 Acts (2 hours 20 minutes– one intermission) Genre/s – Mystery Premise – A professor rescues four stranded drivers in a blizzard after a fatal car accident and one by one they slowly get murdered... Why this play? Why now? – Murder mystery set in Ontario by a Canadian playwright.

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Thank You For Your Order Playwright – Jessica Moss Production Company/Theatre space – (Professional) Lunchbox Theatre @ Studio Theatre, Vertigo Theatre. Length – 1 Act (1 hour 20 minutes) Genre/s – Comedy Premise – A woman mails herself along with goods to her “perfect match”, a man who wants to decorate with tchotchkes, in opposition to his environmentally conscious girlfriend. Why this play? Why now? – A small

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – reset Playwright – Bruce Barton Production Company/Theatre space – Sage Theatre / Vertical City Performance, Art Gallery, Contemporary Calgary. Length – 1 Act (1 hour 25 minutes, no intermission.) Genre – Absurdist (billed as an immersive theatre puzzle) Premise – Bots try to code? Parts of the brain try to rewire after trauma? Something else? Curiosities – Why. Was. It. Necessary. To. (beat) Deliver. The (pau

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Botticelli in the Fire Playwright – Jordan Tannahill Production Company/Theatre space – Downstage Theatre & Hit and Myth Productions / Big Secret Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 2 Acts (2 hours 15 minutes, one intermission) Genre/s – Fantasy Drama Premise – Consigned to the void after death, Botticelli creates a reimagined play in which he risks everything when he has sex with the wife of his rich patron and f

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Les Mis é rables Playwright/s/Composer/s – Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmar, music by Claude-Michel Sch ö nberg, original French text by Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel, additional material by James Fentoon, Adaptation by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Production Company/Theatre space – Carmen Mackintosh Inc, Executive Producers, Seth Sklar-Heyn, Trinty Wheeler, Broadway Across Canada, The J

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Anne of Green Gables Playwright/s/Composer/s – Book by Donald Harron, music by Norman Campbell lyrics by Donald Harron, Norman Campbell, Elaine Campbell and Mavor Moore (son of Dora Mavor Moore for whom the Toronto Theatre Awards is named for) adapted from the novel by Lucy Maude Montgomery. Production Company/Theatre space – StoryBook Theatre / The Beddington Arts Centre Length – 2 Acts, 2 hours, 20 minutes (one 1

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Casey & Diana Playwright – Nick Green Production Company/Theatre space – (professional) Alberta Theatre Projects / The Martha Cohen Theatr e, The Werklund Centre. Length – 2 Act (2 hour, 20 mins, one intermission) Genre/s – Tragedy Premise – It’s 1991 and Thomas is at Casey House, a hospice for men dying of AIDS, preparing for the arrival of Princess Diana. Why this play? Why now? – While no comparison can be

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Shakespeare’s R&J Playwright – Adapted by Joe Clarco based on the work of William Shakespeare. Production Company/Theatre space – (semiprofessional) Sage Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Company with Calgary Young People’s Theatre / West Village Theatre. Length – 2 Acts (2 hours, 15 mins, one intermission) Genre/s – Tragedy Premise – Four male students at a Catholic boarding school act out Romeo and Juliet at

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – The Tale of the Gifted Prince Playwright/composer Book and lyrics by Lezlie Wade, Music by Daniel Green based on the novel The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander. Production Company/Theatre space – (professional) Theatre Calgary in partnership with Somerled Arts / Max Bell Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 2 Acts, 2 hours, 50 mins. (one intermission) - with opening night festivities - but the regula

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Who’s Under Where? Playwrights – Marcia Kash and Douglas E. Hughes based on material originally conceived by Ian Clark, Ian Deakin, Cheryl Hood, Marcia Kash and Cheryl Partington. Production Company/Theatre space – Stage West Length – 2 Act (2 hours 5 minutes one intermission.) Genre/s – Farce Premise – Two women, trying to secure a business deal for their lingerie business, go to a hotel room to hire models but

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Hansel and Gretel Playwright/s/Composer/s – Composer Engelbert Humerdinck, libretto by Adelheid Wette, the translator (from German) was sadly omitted from the program. Production Company/Theatre space – Calgary Opera / Jubilee Auditorium. Length – 2 Acts (2 ½ hours including one intermission.) Genre – Fairytale opera Premise – A brother and sister, hungry and lost in the woods, come across a house made of ginge

Show – My Name is Karen Playwright – Karen Hines Production Company/Theatre space – One Yellow Rabbit, High Performance Rodeo / Big Secret Theatre, Werklund Centre. Length – 1 Act (60 minutes) Genre/s – Comedy Premise – Karen Hines wrestles with the associations that come from having the same name as the meme of a privileged, middle aged, and often blond woman demanding attention and acting badly in public over some real or imagined slight. Why this play? Why

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Bloodlust Summer-Time Playwright/s/Composer/s . Writer – Shenoah Allen Production Company/Theatre space – One Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo / Heather Edwards Theatre, Contemporary Calgary. Length – 65 minutes Genre – Storytelling Stand-Up Premise – Allen recounts personal stories from his family including drugs, guns, and murder, sometimes impersonating his male relatives. Why this play? Why now? – N