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Monthly Archives: March 2021
SOUND OFF gathers Deaf artists from across the country and beyond for its online 2021 edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In an age of probing questions about inclusivity in theatre, here’s a model of accessibility — forged in the fire of experience, years of it, of being marginalized, and finding alternate pathways to communicating. SOUND OFF, Canada’s … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Dodd, Deaf Antlers Improv, Deaf Spirit Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, Outside The March, Playwrights Canada Press, Rapid Fire Theatre, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, SummerWorks, The Two Natashas
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Expanse 2021, the festival of bodies in motion, moves online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Creating more space.” It’s a phrase that recurs like a mantra, and an invitation, when Azimuth Theatre’s two new co-artistic producers Sue Goberdhan and Morgan Yamada talk about this year’s Expanse Festival, opening tonight on an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Article 11, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, Cuban Movements Dance Academy, Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Fringe theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, Miwa Matreyek, Remix The Ritual, SOUND OFF Festival, Tara Beagan
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An ancient vision, a new cosmology: Makram Ayache’s The Hooves Belonged To The Deer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A year of dizzying optics. The walls have both closed in on us — an audience of one wrapped in our own pandemic carapaces in front of our own personal screens — and they’ve blown wide … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Makram Ayache, Peter Hinton, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project, theatre podcasts
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Making indie theatre just got less lonely: RISER goes national and comes to Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even at the best of times (which I think we can all agree this is not) It’s hard, high-risk work producing indie theatre. Bright creative innovative ideas that find their natural habitat in independent theatre arrive … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER, Why Not Theatre
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Real people reporting from the real world: COVID Collections, a short film online at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the pandemic grinds on, don’t you find it becomes harder and harder to imagine watching the inevitable outbreak of solo confessional COVID-inspired monologue shows in our collective future? You can conjure them in your mind’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Dressing the stars: a star designer. Leona Brausen creates stroll-by theatre in a costume installation at the Varscona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So what do wealthy socialites wear to dinner parties in ‘30s Budapest anyhow? Or to auctions in ’20s upstate New York? Breezy playboys in ‘50s Manhattan with their pleated trousers, worn high and sharp like their … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnigh.ca, costume design, Edmonton theatre, Leona Brausen, Teatro La Quindiina, Varscona Theatre, Viola Desmond
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Here’s welcome news: EPCOR boosts Heart + Soul Fund with an additional $1 million`
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a devastating year for the city’s performing arts, EPCOR has again stepped up with welcome news and a boost. At a press conference Monday the Edmonton utility announced an additional $1 million infusion to its … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Heart + Soul Fund
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Live theatre. It’s been a year, and Act II awaits
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hard to believe. But it’s been a year. One year ago (or a lifetime) this very weekend our lives changed. In ways that don’t feel temporary. I went to the opening of Heisenberg at Shadow Theatre … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, pandemic art
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Finding your own story: Dana Wylie’s Makings of a Voice at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m right here with you right now,” says Dana Wylie, looking intently right into our eyes at the outset of Makings of a Voice. Against the probabilities and across the screen (the defining demarcation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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