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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play: A wild ride through the evolution of pop culture. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The End. So. What then? There’s something indestructible, maybe even sustaining, about the collective act of storytelling. Something viral, in the bloodstream, possibly toxic and radioactive, that can outlast apocalypses. When society shatters completely and we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Washburn, Blarney Productions, Cape Feare, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, The Simpsons, You Are Here Theatre
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A holiday tradition to call their own: The Blank Who Stole Christmas at Rapid Fire Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch/ You really are a heel….” In the show that opens Friday at Rapid Fire Theatre headquarters, you will see what happens when a company addicted to adrenalin and devoted to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, The Grinch
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The world is ending, so what about Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa …? Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play is on it. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So a director and an a choreographer go into a Strathcona bar to discuss the apocalypse and The Simpsons.… It happened last week. Whoa, the end of the world? Now what do we do? “We’re obsessed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, The Simpsons, Westbury Theatre, You Are Here
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Strange, playful, and of this moment: The Skin Of Our Teeth from Bright Young Things. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s strange, it’s playful. And it gets right to the heart of the dark, chaotic, freak-out of the present moment. That’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the high-spirited, anarchic, category-resistant 1942 “comedy” (for want of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Thornton Wilder, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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Check-in time at the Bed and Breakfast, Theatre Network’s season-opener comedy. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You never have the full story when you’re in the middle of it,” says Drew (Chris Pereira), one-half of the beleaguered urbanite couple we meet at the outset of Bed and Breakfast. In Mark Crawford’s funny, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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“Have you milked the mammoth?” Thornton Wilder’s The Skin Of Our Teeth, the wildest play of the season. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The weirdest, wildest play of the season — let’s be bold and call it in advance — is opening tonight on the Varscona stage. It’s not new, though it feels like it might be. The Skin … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Dave Horak, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Thornton Wilder, Varscona Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble
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Bed and Breakfast: a hit comedy to open the Theatre Network season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre repertoire has a fulsome measure of stories about gay kids who pull up stakes in their small-town lives and flee to freedom in the big city. In the hit Canadian comedy that opens at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Crawford, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network
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Heather Inglis is Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new artistic producer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre has a new “artistic producer.” She’s Heather Inglis, the founder and artistic director of the adventurous Edmonton-based indie company Theatre Yes. With the departure of Vern Thiessen after five years as artistic … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Theatre Yes, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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