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Peter Oldring is funnier than you: star comedian joins Grindstone’s new comedy fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you got incensed the day your ear was caught by an item on CBC Radio One that the province of Nova Scotia had cancelled Grade 4, you’re not alone. (And you already know something about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, CBC Radio, Dexter Guff Is Smarter Than You, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, improv comedy, Peter Oldring, sketch comedy, The 11 O'Clock Number, This Is That, This Sounds Serious
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A kickstart for Chekhovian ennui: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at Shadow. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Oh let’s not talk. I’ll keep my sadness to myself,” says a mopey sister to a melancholy brother near the start of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Yeah, right. Like that’s gonna happen. As … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chekhov, Christopher Durang, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Varscona Theatre
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Have you met our new friend? thoughts on Nassim at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are many things I can’t tell you about Nassim (tempting though it is). (a) It just wouldn’t be fair. The show created by the Iranian playwright artist Nassim Soleimanpour, who travels the world with it, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Farsi, Nassim Soleimanpour Productions, patreon.com/12thnight, Rice Theatre
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The Shadow knows: putting the comedy back into Chekhov, and the new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have had nothing to write about….” The playwright himself called it “Chekhov in a blender.” But Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, by the raucous American absurdist Christopher Durang … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chekhov, Christopher Durang, Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Nassim, an adventure in language and connection: meet playwright Nassim Soleimanpour
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The last time I talked to Nassim Soleimanpour, six years ago, the Iranian playwright was in the middle of Tehran on a cellphone that kept fading out, and I had laryngitis. There’s got to be an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bush Theatre, Citadel Rice Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nassim Soleimanpour
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Romance into tragedy: the dark, violent, original new hearing-deaf Tempest at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It never stops raining in the version of The Tempest that’s now lashing and splashing and skidding across the Citadel mainstage. As the Fool in Twelfth Night sings (borrowed by this wettest of Tempests for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ASL interpretation, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Two big birthdays, one big bash: Rubaboo and Dreamspeakers festivals
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The celebration of Indigenous artists and their many-sided contributions to our shared culture takes another step forward with the tandem anniversary editions of the Rubaboo Arts Festival and the Dreamspeakers Film Festival today through May 7. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts, Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Edmonton theatre, Josh Languedoc, Rubaboo Arts Festival
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“The hour’s now come”: deaf and hearing actors together in The Tempest at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O brave new world, that has such people in’t,” as Miranda, the daughter of a deposed ruler in exile, says in wonder towards the end of one of Shakespeare’s most mysterious and haunting plays. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lorne Cardinal, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Tyst Teater
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