Sky Life
Sky Life is ready for lift-off
Sometimes inspiration can come from the most unusual places. For Annie Dugan, Artistic Director of Firefly Theatre and Circus, inspiration came from the impressive Metropolis Community Centre in Sir Winston Churchill Square. In fact, the presentation of Sky Life was created specifically for the space. ...more
Sky Life - Mel Priestly
They've been up for several weeks now, but the group of oddly-shaped structures occupying Sir Winston Churchill Square still make for a commanding sight. Made from scaffolding covered with an exoskeleton of shrink-wrapped plastic, the Metropolis Winter Festival pavilions provide a unique theatrical space, and the minds at Firefly Theatre & Circus were keen to take advantage of it. ...more
Operation EVAsion
EDMONTON JOURNAL - Edmonton's Firefly Theatre soars with Eva Peron Operation EVAsion part of Canoe Festival
There is nothing remotely earthbound about the show that opens not on, but above a stage next week at Workshop West's fourth annual Canoe Festival. ... ...more
VUE WEEKLY - EVAsion Body Odyssey - Firefly Theatre's introspective EVAsion follows not the life, but the post-death story of Eva Perón
Annie Dugan admits she's become a little more than obsessed with Eva Perón. A few years back, Edmonton's aerial sweetheart saw a production of the musical Evita that turned her on to the Argentine heroine. ...more
EDMONTON EXAMINER - Unique theatre show explores Evita's posthumous travels
If corpses could talk, what would they say? It's a question Annie Dugan has pondered for many hours. In her latest one-woman performance, the local artist will narrate from the viewpoints of a corpse and its three, er ... body doubles, as she explores the posthumous travels of Eva Peron, also known as Evita. ...more
Canada Council Profile
Firefly Theatre and Circus Society
The Canada Council officially recognized contemporary circus arts as an artform in 2009. However artists and arts organizations practicing this artform had already been receiving Council funding. ...more
Fly By Night
St. Albert Gazette - Up To Here
When Annie Dugan and John Ullyatt founded Firefly Theatre, they took circus skills out of the big top and decked them in dramatic cirque glamour. ...more
Vue Weekly - 2010: Zodiac acrobats Firefly Theatre finds inspiration in astrology
Though it's still pretty wintery outside, Edmonton audiences have a chance to see some of the city's best summer festival performers each year - that's thanks to Firefly Theatre's annual Fly By Nights extravaganza. ...more
Vue Weekly - 2009: Fly By Night: Come Fly with me Firefly Theatre is happy to open its doors for Fly by Night
Watch out Cirque du Soleil. Firefly Theatre's annual circus and vaudeville show at La Cité Francophone, Fly By Night, is upping the ante and adding the spirited dogs of Spectrum Speed Dogsports to its repertoire of performers. ...more
Vue Weekly - 2008:Firefly flies by night again
The golden days of Vaudeville may lie back in the 1930s, but most of the performance styles involved still exist - it's just a rare to see the mash-up of circus spectacle acts presented in the same, under-one-roof style that was so popular in the early 20th century. However, Annie Dugan is looking to resurrect that magic for a few evenings with Firefly Theatre's third annual Fly By Night. ...more
Duck Duck Bang
The Gateway - Duck Duck Bang a splashy, flashy, aerial spectacle
Whoever named the Mighty Ducks movies and hockey team was definitely onto something, but can even the mightiest duck withstand a huge explosion? The answer to this question is given in Duck Duck Bang, a stunning, energetic, and colourful spectacle by Edmonton's Firefly Theatre. It combines aerials, dancing, music, theatre, physical stunts, and colourful costumes and props to serve audiences a visual feast that's more delicious than juicy game roasting on a spit over a fire. ...more
Edmonton Journal - If it waddles like a duck ...
The word "spectacle" floats lightly and hangs in the air at the Westbury Theatre these days. Ah, the air. That's where the action is in that reinvented Fringe Theatre Adventures space. ...more
Workshops
Edmonton Examiner - Firefly Theatre hosts circus skills workshops in Churchill
If you work downtown, you might want to pick up a new skill on your lunch break Friday. Firefly Theatre is hosting Circus Skills Workshops on Aug. 20, Aug. 27, and Sept. 3 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Sir Winston Churchill Square. ...more
Firefly Theatre
All Stages Magazine - Fall 2010
Between the long rehearsal hours and the intimate contact that theatre creation entails, the cast of a production can come to feel like a family, and it's not unheard of for several members of the same family to share an interest in theatre. ...more
Video
Alberta Primetime - Theatre Reaches Heights
Can you combine high flying circus stunts with live theatre? Annie Dugan - a woman with no fear of heights says "yes." Find out how she does it in this Extreme Alberta. ... see video
Edmonton Journal - Firefly Theatre's Annie Dugan
Firefly Theatre Director Annie Dugan, who used to perform in the circus in the U.S. She now lives in Edmonton and puts on aerial performances with her group and trains and teaches her skills to others. She's also training her dog Mochi, who she hopes to get into the Superdogs show at the Rainmaker Rodeo. ...see video