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Monthly Archives: May 2018
Escape Room theatre adventure puzzle: The Snow Queen is Azimuth’s latest collaboration
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Snow Queen, a strange and haunting fairy tale by the 19th century Danish master Hans Christian Andersen, a magic troll mirror distorts everything it reflects. It shatters, scattering icy splinters across the world. Anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Escape Rooms, Hans Christian Andersen, immersive theatre, Kristi Hansen, The Snow Queen, Vanessa Sabourin
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“I need you like water”: relationships in a time of oil in Last Chance Leduc
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fulcrum of Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc — the third in her Alberta Landworks Trilogy about human relationships destabilized by seismic shifts in industry — is the moment of Alberta’s gold rush. I refer, of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta oil and gas industry, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Katherine Koller, Leduc #1, Snowflake Productions, Tracy Carroll
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A man, his ghosts, his dog, his quest for meaning: Terry and the Dog, a review of Collin Doyle’s mysterious new play
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m trying to find meaning here,” Terry tells us in the very first line of Terry and the Dog. It’s a theme he’ll return to at the end, and regularly in between. So are we all, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Collin Doyle, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, PCL Studio Theatre
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Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc: marriage on the brink of the boom
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that opens tonight at the Backstage Theatre is poised at the moment of a dramatic shift — in thinking, in focus, in perspective. In Alberta in 1947, big oil was discovered near Leduc. One … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta oil and gas industry, Alberta Playwriting Competition, Edmonton theatre, Katherine Koller, Leduc #1, Leduc #1 Energy Discovery Centre, Tracy Carroll
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The curious incident of Terry and the Dog: the new Collin Doyle premieres at Edmonton Actors Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the archive of Edmonton Actors Theatre — an award-winning indie company with a solemn name but wildly playful theatrical appetites — there’s everything but the kitchen sink. There’s a a gleeful, insurrectionist satire, Fatboy. There’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Collin Doyle, Dave Horak, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, PCL Studio Theatre
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Just in time: on Edmonton stages this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca •Last chance this weekend for the Theatre Network production of Hannah Moscovitch’s fascinating Infinity — a smart, accessible and strangely affecting play about time — the shortage of it, the meaning of it, the misuse of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, damn magpies, dance theatre, Edmonton theatre, ELOPE, Good Women Dance, Hannah Moscovitch, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Theatre Network
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