http://www.northernlighttheatre.comNorthern Light Theatre Blogen-ca2012-05-17 04:01:00 PM2012-05-17 04:01:00 PMhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=68      My name is Kelly Kozakevich, I am from Red Deer College and am interning at Northern Light Theatre. As most of you know, today was my (and Adams) fifth day interning with NLT and this is only my first... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=67 Day 4 January 26 Thursday   Today we started by turning the greenroom into a recording studio and found out how many ways four girls can creep you out by whispering into microphones. This was a most... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=66 Day 3 January 25 Wednesday   “Don’t call yourself someone else’s name. Remember that, children in school.” ~Elinor Holt Professional artists are full... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=65 Day 2 January 24 Tuesday   Good news today! I figured out the to and from routes from my house to TransAlta Arts Barn and didn’t get lost once! Heck, the great news is I barely had to stop for red... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=59 Hey Northern Light Theatre fans! Wanna get the inside scoop on what's happening in rehearsal for "The Ecstatics"? Well, you're in luck!  Our Red Deer College intern Adam Hynes is going to be blogging every day about what's... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=61 Day 1 January 23 Monday   I am Adam Hynes, a second year theatre student from RDC interning at Northern Light Theatre. It’s been one day on the "job" and so far I've been hired once, fired four times,... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=45 Hey fans of Northern Light Theatre!   The new year is fast approaching, and Northern Light Theatre has a ton of events coming up in 2011 that we need volunteers for!   Make one of your new years’... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=44 We're recruiting! As you might know from Northern Light Theatre’s brochure or here on the website- we are hosting a Roller Derby style Fundraiser this season on Saturday, March 12, 2011.In the... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=43 We Want to Hear From You! Participate in Northern Light Theatre's Survey As our valued audience, we want to hear your feedback, so we've put together a short survey to find out what makes... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=34 To bully or be bullied.....It has been such an interesting and thought provoking rehearsal process and run thus far.  So much discussion has gone into the topics of the show, both in rehearsals and in my personal... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=32 So, here i am- at 3:30 in the morning following our first of two Opening Nights for THE 4TH GRADERS....i should be sound asleep. And i was, until about half an hour ago, following a good performance to a receptive and generous and... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=31 Why are we doing this play? Yesterday was a tough day. Everyone moved into a new place and, for me, the kids we are playing became very real. So, it was quite difficult and emotional. At the end of the... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=30 First Week of Rehearsal by Sue Huff The week went by really quickly. Hard to believe that there’s only one more week and then we are in front of an... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=11 We need two phones on stage in JAILBAIT, so Gina and i hit a mall to check out the phone kiosks, hoping we could score one or two phones.We got seven.Our stage management/director's table looks like this.*refer to photo*... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=7 Tapping InToday was an interesting rehearsal. I was scriptless for the first time all the way through. Nice to get the anchor out of my hands. Although we’re revising the beginning of my last scene, the primal emotional beats... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=4 We broke a rehearsal table last night in our rush to clear out of the rehearsal space before the dancers swarmed in to shake their stuff (it's a belly-dance studio, so it wasn't just a cute euphemism). In our haste (we ran late) someone collapsed... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=3 Carmela looks like Frankenstein.Not the good kind of Frankenstein- like in a Catalyst show. More like Boris Karloff Frankenstein.We're in the middle of running the first scene and Melanie insists she needs to... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=8 It's Monday- our day off after finishing our first week of rehearsal- so i thought i'd take a few minutes and contribute to our new blog. We've had a very productive week, and have worked quickly- blocking the whole show in the first two days and... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=2 How familiar does this sound to you- "Let's do each other's make-up and then wash it off and then do it all over again"? Sounds like a teenage or pre-teenage girl, doesn't it? Well, in JAILBAIT the two teenage girls do exactly that in the first... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=54 You know, I think it’s quite fitting that on the way to see the Northern Light Theatre production of Stephen Massicotte’s Pervert, I saw a man whip out his thing and pee on a sign, then proceed to face traffic and pee towards... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=55 No, You’re a Pervert In going to see a show titled Pervert, there are certain expectations that one sets up for themselves – especially after they are warned at the box office of explicit content and... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=56 Artists at Northern Light Theatre ask: Who’s PERVERT-ed these days anyway? Erinn Webb Are we afraid to discuss the role of porn in our lives? Activities around midnight at the local porn store are... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=57 When I think pornography I think that dark section at the back of the video store closed off by two daunting black curtains with a big sign overhead that reads “18+.”  Of course, that may be because I grew up in small-town High... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=58   Gone are the days when the word “pervert” actually meant something— something wild and disgusting, something specific, something we could point at and ridicule. But now, as explored in Stephen Massicotte’s... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=51 Why Are Men Such Pussies? After watching Northern Light Theatre’s production of Stephen Massicotte’s Pervert on Saturday night, I am rapidly losing faith in the male species of the human race.  Since Massicotte... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=52 Pervin’   Northen Light Theatre ends its scandalous season with a bang. Pervert illuminated the idea that (as the opening song suggested) everybody’s got a little kink. I myself felt like quite the perv scoping... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=50 Does Red Letter mean Red Flag In a day and age of Dateline NBC and Online Youtube broadcasts becoming increasingly popular, where does society draw the line between entertainment and indecent exposure?  Northern... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=47 Meat Puppet   Desperation. We’ve all been there in one form or another, whether it’s doing something utterly regrettable in the name of love or money, or twisting the truth in order to make our lives just a little... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=48 Northern Light Theatre's Meat Puppet Review - Thursday January 20, 2011       Next on the agenda: a cooperation between NLT and Shadow Theatre in a production of Meat Puppet by local playwright, Leif... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=49 Pondering my reaction to this production, I realized that I did not in-fact know what a "meat puppet" was, nor had I ever heard the turn of phrase before. Baffled and a little trepidatious of what I might find I wandered on down to my friendly... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=42 Picture this room: white, unadorned, utterly sterile. A girl displaying a physical disability greets you, handing out programs, from her wheelchair, though it’s damn near impossible to tell whether she is a) part of the show, and, if she... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=35 Fourth grade.  My fourth grade class was called "The Grizzlies."  My most vivid memory of the fourth grade is of my teacher deciding that we were going to make a class movie, based off of "The Titanic," called "The Grizzlanic." ... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=36 Northern Light Theatre's The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide left my body shaking and my step unbalanced. During the show, audience members were constantly checking the reactions of other audience members to make sure others were also... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=37 Northern Light Theatre: 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide Review Sunday, November 7, 2010, 7:30pm   When I first walked into Studio B at the Arts Barns on Sunday night I thought to myself, “Wow, this place is... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=38 The space chosen for Trevor Schmidt's production of "The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide" was reminiscent of an actual elementary school classroom with tiled floors and plain walls. The experience of being at an actual school drama... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=39 I’m just gonna go ahead and say it: Northern Light Theatre’s The Fourth Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide was one of the strangest, most unique theatre experiences I have ever... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=40   The beauty of The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide lies in its simplicity. With the audience seating literally filling up half of the available space in the White Box, I knew that there would be no shying away from the... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=41 Little People, Big Problems: Northern Light Theatre’s production of “The 4th Graders Present An Unnamed Love-Suicide” A fourth grader shoots himself in the head. His classmates stage the play he penned; an “Unnamed... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=25 In Deirdre O’Connor’s “Jailbait” we watch in fascinated horror and occasional amusement as the characters move irrevocably towards disaster, providing us along the way with compelling insights into maturity, sex and love. Two... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=26 “The Rule with Jailbait is that sixteen will get you 20”. At the age of fifteen, you’ve been a teen for two years and you’ve realized that your parents aren’t as cool as you thought, but you still can’t drink or drive so you try to go... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=27 Things I remember about being fifteen: Dyeing my hair blue for the third time. Slow dancing to KC and Jojo's "All My Life" to the stink of my Junior High gym. Finding boys my own age tragically, unavoidably, and painfully unattractive. Though I... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=28 Fifteen, sixteen, seventeen… that’s jailbait. Seventeen-and-a-half… that’s still jailbait. And so we begin the 2010/2011 Northern Light Theatre season with these lyrics in mind. Deirdre O’Connor’s sophisticated script takes a look at... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=29 Northern Light Theatre Blog Saturday, September 18th Matinee Performance of Jailbait. As I entered the Varscona Theatre for the Saturday Matinee performance of Deirdre O’Connor’s Jailbait, I was immediately captivated by the bold poster... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=21 Right from the get-go, Northern Light Theatre is looking to turn some heads with their 2010-2011 season. One can hardly concede to watching a play entitled “Jailbait” without at least half expecting there to be some risky and uncomfortable... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=22 Northern Light Theatre Jailbait Review; Preview, Thursday, September 16, 2010 Are interactions between teen-age girls and middle-age men really that controversial? If we think about it, these kinds of relationships were perfectly acceptable in... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=23 The Northern Light Theatre’s production of Jailbait finds its strength in its honesty. Deirdre O’Connor’s script creates a dialogue about the frightening state of relationships today. This morally complicated play could have been a romance... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=24 My first impressions of the performance consisted of: “oh dear god, high school awkwardness never dies” as a middle aged man named Robert fumbles trying to flirt with fifteen year old girl in gold three inch heels and a very large black hairdo.... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=20 Erinn Webb's Blog for NLT's Jailbait - PREVIEW Thursday September 16, 2010Based on the synopsis for Dierdre O'Connor's Jailbait, I was intrigued but I admit I went to the performance as a voyeur expecting to see some... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=19 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM I am from Grande Prairie, AB and moved to edmonton to pursue the University of Alberta's drama program. I am currently in my 4th year of the B.A. Honors program. http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=17 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM Merran Carr-Wiggin is a fourth year Drama Honours student at the University of Alberta. She has been involved with many theatre festivals in the community and is an avid theatre-goer. She is very... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=16 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM Catherine Medynski first realised her passion for drama while growing up in Red Deer, Alberta. As soon as opportunity would allow, she began her post-secondary education at the University of... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=13 BUILDING BLOGS SECONDARY BLOG PROGRAM Mariann Kirby is in her 4th and final year of the BA Drama Honours at the University of Alberta. Some of her more recent performance credits include: ICE: beyond cool and After Juliet with the Teens @ The... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=14 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM I have been involved in theatre since I was eight years old. I am now in my second year at Grant MacEwan's Theatre Arts program, and actually just got cast today as Margaret Lord in the musical... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=15 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM I want and need to see as many plays as possible. While instantly becoming completely benevolent and all-knowing about theater would be a fill me with absolute joy, I must – unfortunately -... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=12 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY BLOG PROGRAM My name is Erinn Webb and theatre has been my life for the past few years. This summer I worked for Theatre Alberta as the Artstrek Registrar, having been a participant of the Artstrek program in High... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=9 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY BLOG PROGRAM Joyanne Rudiak is in her fourth year of a BA Honors in Drama at the University of Alberta. A performer of many trades, she is excited to be working with Northern Lights Theatre this season to help expand... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=10 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY BLOG PROGRAM My name is Mark Vetsch and I am a 4th year BA Honors student. I will be finishing my degree this May and will technically graduate in November of 2011. Most of my experience in theatre has to do with... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=5 BUILDING BLOGS POST SECONDARY BLOG PROGRAM Elena Belyea is a BA Drama student going into her fifth and final year at the University of Alberta. She enjoys making zines, piggy-back rides, produce shopping, and playing the ukulele. http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=53 Going into the Varscona Theatre for Pervert, the last show of this season for NLT (Yes, I am crying too), too early isn’t a bad thing.  It will give you ample time to take in the captivating set used for this play.  While... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=46 One mark of a play being fantastic is when you temporarily forget about the real world, and instead, you are drawn into the simulated reality being presented on stage.  Instead of worrying about the problems you face when you leave the small... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=33 Imagine going into a room with white walls, three doors, thirty chairs, and a small stage.  Imagine getting your program from a fourth-grader with special needs, and then watching as a small class of them perform a play written by a boy... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=18 What is Jailbait?  If you mean the slang term, often used in society today, it means: A person below the age of majority, considered as a potential sexual partner.  If you mean it in a pop culture reference, it is the fourth song in Ted... http://www.northernlighttheatre.com/blog/blog.php?id=6 LITTLE BIRDIES AND BIG BLOGS HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE BLOG PROGRAM