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Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – Hadestown: Teen Edition Playwright/s/Composer/s – Anaïs Mitchell Production Company/Theatre space – StoryBook Theatre / The Beddington Arts Centre Length – 2 Acts, 2 hours, 20 minutes (one 15-minute intermission) Genre/s – Fantasy Tragedy Opera Premise – In a world where gods and mortals co-exist above and below ground, an artist succeeds in rescuing his beloved from the underworld only to lose her in the end. Why

Postcard Review by Caroline Russell-King Show – The Wizard of One Playwright – Production Company/Theatre space – Calgary Fringe / The Kinkonauts @ BLOX Arts Centre Length – 45 minutes Genre/s – Absurdist drama/fantasy crossover Premise – Frank has to defeat his evil soon-to-be daughter-in-law and follow the yellow wires to the man in the basement with three other people who are similar to the Lion, Tin Man, and Scarecrow to escape a senior citizens’ home and retu

Calgarian Neil James has reimagined The Wizard of Oz so that now it takes place in a senior citizens retirement home. Dorothy is now an aging gentleman whose son is marrying a gold digger, and they have put him in the home where she works. She intends to drug him and have him sign away his life savings and property. This certainly qualifies her as a witch. Like the original Dorothy, the old man just wants to go home. In his attempt to find the Man or Wizard, he meets a man w