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A work-out for body and brain: Martha Burns is running in The Party and The Candidate at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There are two plays getting their world premieres simultaneously tonight in the Citadel. Martha Burns is in both of them. Burns and her nine cast-mates play characters who inhabit not one but two new Kat Sandler … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, farce, Kat Sandler, Martha Burns, political comedy
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Slight of Mind: boarding now at the Citadel, flights into the unknown. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Notes from the departure lounge: We’ve been welcomed by a ground crew of beaming and perky flight attendants. We’ve been through security. Very professional. “Have you been on a farm?” No. “Have you consumed anything organic?” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amelia Earhart, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Icarus, promenade theatre, Theatre Yes, Valentina Tereshkova
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“If I’m honest…”: 19 Weeks steps up to the wall of silence. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet up close in 19 Weeks, folding laundry in a toy-strewn room, says “if I’m honest…” and “being honest …” and “in all honesty …” a lot. And then she looks right at … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, late-term pregnancy, Northern Light Theatre, Vanessa Sabourin
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The season’s craziest logistics: Kat Sandler’s two new political comedies at the Citadel happen at the same time
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s beyond, (way beyond) coincidence that 4:05 minutes into two plays that both run on the same night, with the same cast, in two different theatres at the Citadel (starting tonight in preview), a scene begins … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, farce, Kat Sandler, political comedy
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19 Weeks: “It’s not something anybody talks about.” Emily Steel’s story of a harrowing real-life decision, her own
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the things that made it so hard was that you feel completely isolated — because it’s not something anyone talks about. I had no reference points. I had nobody to talk to, nobody who’d … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Adelaide Fringe, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre
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Say Yes to flight: Slight of Mind takes us through the secret caverns of the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What goes up must come down. In the multi-pronged flight of fancy that opens Friday at the Citadel, you’ll do a little of both as Slight of Mind takes you on a journey into the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, immersive theatre, promenade theatre, Theatre Yes
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Lungfuls of anxiety: Lungs at Shadow Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Times being what they are, are you still “good people” if you decide to become parents? To bring another being into a world that’s already over-crammed with beings? A kid leaves a carbon footprint that’s bigger … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Improvised Star Wars on the planet YEG, at the Grindstone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Spring seat sale: I visited the planet YEG last night, a gritty post-apocalyptic landscape (and cantina) “far from everything that’s really happening.” Kanuck, cantina proprietor and aspirational Bounty Hunter in training, had evidently screwed up his … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Kanuck's Cantina, Star Wars
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Dear Evan Hansen arrives in the upcoming Broadway Across Canada season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca An innovative award-winner of a Broadway musical with every kind of contemporary traction is the finale of the upcoming three-show Broadway Across Canada season. Dear Evan Hansen, arriving at the Jube Feb. 11 to 16 2020, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Dear Evan Hansen, Edmonton theatre, Hamilton, musical theatre, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Small Mouth Sounds: the human comedy gets the silent treatment at the Roxy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There aren’t many words in it, but Small Mouth Sounds isn’t what you’d call quiet. The silent treatment is loud in the ingenious, funny, and mysteriously affecting play that the indie company Wild Side has brought … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bess Wohl, Edmonton theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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