![]() The Journal critic of the day recorded the event, somewhat equivocally, as “a lulling mix of speech and song in praise of the lusty Elizabethans.” Northern Light Theatre production: Love and Drollery, starring Scott Swan and Merrilyn Gann.įour years later, Edmontonians were watching their first Shakespeare-in-the-park, under a big striped tent on a hill in the river valley, with a dramatic upstage view of the city skyline. ![]() Northern Light’s debut production, Love and Drollery, was an original concoction of Elizabethan love songs and poems. Northern Light’s official naming happened at a “spiritual retreat,” as Swan has said wryly, in the basement lounge of the Greenbriar Hotel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. As Swan says, “we’d heard that John Neville was doing amazing things” in an ex-Sally Ann citadel downtown. Its quartet of founding parents - West Coast actors Scott Swan and Allan Lysell along with thespian sisters Angela and Merrilyn Gann - had arrived in town, intrigued by news of an Edmonton theatre phenom. Northern Light’s origins were both modest and distinctively odd, a lunchtime theatre in the Edmonton Art Gallery basement (tickets: a buck). It’s veered from mainstream musical revues like Jacques Brel and Piaf to “artist-driven” performance art, from literary adaptations to multimedia dance creations. At times, a company of outdoor Shakespeare and Shaw has become a theatre of the modern European repertoire in translation. Please try again Article contentĮn route to its striking current identity as the theatre of “the exciting, the unusual, the plays that don’t reach our country or our language,” as artistic director Trevor Schmidt puts it, Northern Light has shed its skin again and again. The next issue of Edmonton Journal Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.
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