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The “what’s next?” comes to you: the 2020 Nextfest goes online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O my gosh!” declares Nextfest director Ellen Chorley, who has a great and natural talent for celebration. “I’m absolutely blown away by how special and magical it is! I’m so thrilled!” The playwright/ actor/ director/ mentor/ … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Nextfest, Nextfest Arts Company, Theatre Network
The strangest of seasons: a truncated year on Edmonton stages in Sterling Award nominations
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two high-contrast shows, one a subterranean prairie slow-burn tragedy and the other a riotous blood-spattered revenge comedy of the Shakespearean persuasion, proved the top choices of jurors as the 33rd annual Sterling Award nominations were announced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Catalyst Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, Northern Light Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Sterling Award nominations, Theatre Network, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Vena Amoris, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
A world of uncertainty: a playground for improv. Dungeons, Dragons, and Die-Nasty
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a world of uncertainty, improv makes perfect sense. It’s no coincidence that in a crisis, award-winning artists in this improv-crazy theatre town have stepped up to the challenge, and improvised new ways to take performance … Continue reading
Girl Brain goes the (social) distance in a new series of online comedy sketches
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Proposition: there is a funny side to everything. If you approach from oblique angles. While Ellie Heath was spending a month in quarantine at her mom’s place, she overheard a rambunctious maternal Zoom cocktail get-together. “Mom … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catapult Pictures, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, sketch comedy
The Desperate Izmores: portrait of a marriage in crisis. Don’t you dare laugh.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s bored — with a chaser of exasperation and an adenoidal voice that makes your fillings hurt. He’s a sad-sack sulker, a dimwit who’d be a poster boy for morosity (if that ever becomes an actual … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belinda Cornish, Die-Nasty, Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Ron Pederson, The Izmores, YouTube comedy
FringeLiveStream: a new Fringe season venture in bringing live performances direct to your screen
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A summer without Fringes? It’s a strange and defoliated calendar for us audiences — and a daunting one for theatre artists, already struggling to survive the shutting down of the performing arts industry. Fringe veteran Jon … Continue reading
Cocktails at Stewart’s: Teatro La Quindicina throws an online party to celebrate a birthday and a season on hold for a year
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Listen, life is valuable…. If it ends, you’d miss it. Remember that, but also forget about it. I’m done. Where’s my drink?” The woman who delivers an impromptu Best Lady acceptance speech in Stewart Lemoine’s 2003 … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
“Where are you?” Tracks, an online experiment, takes us home with the cast.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A preamble to Tracks, the online theatre that’s happening this week on your own screen…. Ever since going out to theatre, my way of life for forever, abruptly ended a thousand years ago (or 10 weeks, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Beth Dart, digital theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Mac Brock, Zoom theatre
Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre gave Sandy Moser the big-M Moment that turned everything around for her. And she’s returning the favour, though she’d never put it that way in a million years. “What would I be doing otherwise?” … Continue reading
Tracks: choose your route in an online theatre adventure from Amoris Projects
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started out as an ambulatory theatre adventure. Tracks let its audiences loose to wander in an unexpected assortment of rooms and spaces — a theatre box office, dressing rooms, bathrooms, the playwright’s car — to … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Nextfest
