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Monthly Archives: April 2021
A theatre to-do list for the week, including a bread and circus combo, kid stuff, costume and video installations, shows to stream
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In week ten thousand of the pandemic, before you actually melt into Netflix and disappear, clicker in hand, put a couple of suggestions on your theatre to-do list. The word ‘fun’ does not go amiss, I … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Chris Dodd, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre and Circus, International Children's Festival, Leona Brausen, National Arts Centre, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre
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Follow the ‘once upon a time’ through the fairy tale world: The Secret in the Wings at Studio Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Don’t let the ‘happily-ever-after’s fool you. Fairy tales are not, contrary to popular belief, a Disney invention, the have-a-great-life tag to rom-coms on a roll. The production that opens today online, in the Studio Theatre season, … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brothers Grimm, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, fairy tales, Mary Zimmerman, Studio Theatre, U of A drama department
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Happy 4-5-7 Will! With news from the Freewill Shakespeare Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca But soft! We bring you birthday news. The playwright-in-residence at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival celebrates his big 4-5-7 today with with alternate plans for a second pandemic summer. Where there’s a Will there’s a way. “So, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the park, summer Shakespeare
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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged #NotYourInspiration, 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, CRIPSiE, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, Punctuate! Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Tamarra Lessard, The National Transformations Project, The Transformers
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A relationship between the lines: Something Unspoken, streamed by Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s just that I feel that there’s something unspoken between us that ought to be spoken….” — Something Unspoken, Tennessee Williams The 1950s Tennessee Williams one-act play that opens online Friday — the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Tennessee Williams, Varscona Theatre
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Adventures in pandemic theatre: a mystery box, a romantic comedy, a (very) short film fest, and more
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre’s strange, circuitous and sometimes wonderful route through the pandemic, chapter umpteen. Let me tell you about my week. •For three days the mystery box sat on the dining room table, wrapped in silver. Light, but … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Factory Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Matthew MacKenzie, Musical Theatreworks, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Bonfire: the festival of new and flammable improv ideas, from Rapid Fire Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How crazy is this? What if … you were quarantined in a room, and you had to improvise all by yourself — for an entire show? And you didn’t know whether anyone was watching or not? … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bonfire Festival, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre
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Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Psst.… Wanna have fun, fast, on a blowy pandemic Sunday? I went to an international film festival this morning. And I saw all 12 jury selections, in their entirety, before my second coffee. Surely the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival
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Unwrapping an adventure: La Boîte Sensorielle delivers a box to your place
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life can be full of surprises. You, my friend, are going to get a mysterious package delivered to your door. It’s wrapped; it has your name on it. But you mustn’t open it until showtime a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Edmonton theatre, Eric Rose, Ghost River Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Young People's Theatre
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