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Monthly Archives: October 2018
From Nootka Sound to Vimy Ridge: Redpatch, an Indigenous soldier’s tale comes to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You could do a lot of exhuming in the archives, in novels, diaries, war poetry, and never discover this striking and mysterious fact: more than four thousand Indigenous Canadians signed up to fight in the First … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hardline Productions, indigenous theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, World War I
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Theatre takes to the trenches: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And make it funny!” barks the Major at the soldier. And so it starts, the remarkable true Canadian story that comes to life in Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company. The new play by a writer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, First World War music, Neil Grahn, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Laughter in the face of death: Neil Grahn’s The Comedy Company launches the Shadow season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Neil Grahn and comedy. He’s sidled, plunged, back-flipped into it. He’s written it and improvised it, acted it, produced it, directed it, studied it at a distance and up close, for stage for film for TV. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Division, Shadow Theatre, The Comedy Company, The Dumbbells, Varscona Theatre
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Defy gravity at your peril: Dead Centre Of Town XI at Fort Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The principle of “what goes up must come down” as applied to air travel isn’t an entirely comforting thought. Defying gravity might have been a blast for Peter Pan but, trust me, it doesn’t always work … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blatchford Field Air Hangar, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, immersive theatre
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In the land of Pretenderos, a plot of epic proportions: Die-Nasty returns with a Lord of Thrones season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Epic battles, dynastic conflicts and alliances, murderous intrigues, lethal challenges, fierce creatures (in striking character roles), aspirational heroes, ancient grievances, copious references to The Throne, a plot that no one person can fully understand…. Yes, smells … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 12tnight.ca, Canadian Comedy Awards, Die-Nasty, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Game of Thrones, improv comedy, Varscona Theatre
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The fear of flying, and the return of Dead Centre of Town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ladies and gentlemen, we will be boarding tonight by zone. The dead centre zone. For 11 years now, Catch the Keys Productions has been leading us on nocturnal Halloween expeditions into the macabre, digging in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, aviation history, Blatchford Field Air Hangar, Catch The Keys Productions, Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park
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“It calls bullshit on scientific distance.” Blood: A Scientific Romance opens its mysteries under The Maggie Tree.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something odd is happening to Jayce Mckenzie and Gianna Vacirca. Their cast-mates in Blood: A Scientific Experiment have noticed it. So has their director Brenley Charkow; ditto their producer Kristi Hansen of The Maggie Tree, an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brenley Charkow, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Kristi Hansen, Lee Playwright In Residence, Meg Braem, The Backstage Theatre, The Maggie Tree, twins
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The mysterious twin bonds of life and art: meet playwright Meg Braem
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You try to make sense of things,” says Meg Braem, whose chosen line of work is the transmutation of real life — in all its perplexing, maddening, intriguing potential — into art. “You’re always searching….” Braem … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Lee Playwright In Residence, Meg Braem, The Maggie Tree, U of A drama department
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