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Monthly Archives: March 2023
The startling topicality of Trouble in Mind, at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s 1957, day 1 of rehearsal for a new Broadway melodrama with an anti-lynching message. And in the opening scene of Trouble in Mind a veteran Black actress is giving pre-rehearsal pointers to a young Black … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alice Childress, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shaw Festival
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A new play and a new chapter for Theatre Yes: Dead in the Water at the Varscona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There are things that need to be said. And I’m going to say them,” says Ruth Alexander, who has the kind of husky laugh people notice right through Saturday din at an Italian cafe. The actor/ musician/ … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Lodestar Theatre, Theatre Yes, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre
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Feel your ribs vibrate: Carbon Movements at SOUND OFF, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To say that I’ve never seen anything remotely like Carbon Movements doesn’t really tell you anything about the fascinating theatre/dance performance/experience that opened the 7th annual SOUND OFF festival of deaf theatre Tuesday night. It’s out-of-body, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brian Webb Dance Company, dance theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, Mile Zero Dance, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, VibroFusionLab
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By the light of the moon: Northern Light Theatre announces its upcoming 48th season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The moon, in all its feminine mystery, figures prominently in the trio of plays — one British, one American, one Canadian — announced by Northern Light Theatre Monday for their upcoming 48th season. “Under The Same … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Christopher Fry, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Studio Theatre
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It’s World Theatre Day: make plans!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On World Theatre Day, your thoughts naturally drift to the exciting prospect of the human connection of live theatre. Hey, it’s a theatre town, and there are choices. •Trouble in Mind, the play that opens Thursday … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Festival Place, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, World Theatre Day
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SOUND OFF, the groundbreaking Deaf theatre fest, dances back for a seventh annual edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Across the country, and the continent, there isn’t anything quite like the groundbreaker of a festival, born in this fair theatre town, that’s back for a seventh annual edition Tuesday. SOUND OFF, Canada’s unique and influential … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Dance Novella, deaf theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, Mile Zero Dance, Rapid Fire Theatre, roots2reach, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, Theatresports, VibraFusion Lab, Zuppa Theatre Co.
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How the West was won: Gender? I Hardly Know Them at Expanse Fest, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As their own song goes (you’ll have to imagine the ukulele accompaniment and the cheery tone), “Alberta’s tough for prairie queers.” But somehow, amazingly, they haven’t let this place, harsh, marginalizing, and right-sliding as it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Expanse Fest is back to celebrate the body in motion
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 10-day movement arts festival that returns Thursday for an 19th annual edition starts with the body in motion. All bodies in motion. And then it expands. That’s Expanse, the nimble, elasticized (and well-named) festival of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton dance, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, The OKO, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Springboards, Workshop West’s new play festival, springs back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca After its return last year for the first time in more than a decade, Springboards springs back this week. And with this edition of Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s signature new play festival, works-in-progress by some 19 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Springboards New Play Festival, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The dizzying optic of All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, a new Karen Hines satire at Shadow. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t have seen anything quite like All The Small Animals I Have Eaten, the play that’s now running in the Shadow Theatre season. And because it’s by Karen Hines, a brilliant original of a satirist, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, One Yellow Rabbit, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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