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Taking a taxi through ’80s Madrid: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown, the musical
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the first song of the musical comedy cum romantic screwball that ricochets across the Varscona stage Thursday, a Madrid taxi driver apostrophizes his beloved home town in the ‘80s. “Give me directions straight into the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Pedro Almodóvar, Plain Jane Theatre, Varscona Theatre Ensemble, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
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Métis Mutt: Sheldon Elter’s journey beyond the punch lines
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hello. My name is Sheldon Elter. And I’ll be your Native comedian for this evening.” Sheldon Elter, the startlingly multi-talented Métis actor/ playwright/ screenwriter/ musician/ director, shudders when he thinks of the jokes he told as … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Métis Mutt, Network, One Little Indian, Sheldon Elter, solo shows, Theatre Network
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The Unrepentant Necrophile: the punk rock musical that’s a test case for female empowerment
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Brooklyn duo the Coldharts are undeniably into dark and shivery. Take their unnerving Fringe hit Edgar Allan, in which the terrifying young Poe is haunted by a doppelgänger he can’t shake. Or The Legend of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, punk rock musicals, The Coldharts, The Unrepentant Necrophile
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The Ladies Foursome: the short game goes long. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hitting a tiny ball with a skinny stick? A long long way into the distance into a hole you can’t even see? To the non-golfer especially, the whole point of that particularly maddening game — alluded … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Jim Guedo, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Norm Foster, The Ladies Foursome
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A Latinx dance lesson: Broken Tailbone is moving theatre, in every sense
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Take off that coat! You’ll be too hot otherwise!” There is nothing usual about Broken Tailbone, the highly original Carmen Aguirre creation that occasions her first-ever visit to Edmonton, courtesy of Workshop West’s Canoe Festival, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Carmen Aguirre, Edmonton theatre, Latinx dance, Nightswimming Theatre
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The sense of connection: Paradise at the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 1992, Patti Flather’s father, a family doctor, was murdered outside his North Vancouver home — shot by a former patient with an undiagnosed mental illness. Reflections on that traumatizing event eventually found their way into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Gwaandak Theatre, MT Space, Patti Flather
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Feel the breeze: Chinook blows through with cutting-edge live theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook: finally, the moment in the deep midwinter when “cutting edge” doesn’t refer to the wind chill factor. Edmonton’s international multidisciplinary performance series blows through the winter theatre season again starting tonight. For this third annual … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, multi-disciplinary performance, Sound Off, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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“Reimagining” the Citadel: Daryl Cloran announces a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Reimagine” is the rallying cry at Edmonton’s largest playhouse as it turns 53 next season. Artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled the upcoming Citadel season, the second he’s fashioned for the company, in the Club cabaret Monday … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2018-2019 season, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hardline Productions, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Kat Sandler, Nassim Soleimanpour, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Yes, Tyst Teatre, Vancouver Arts Club
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When you meet a grizzly…. Matthew MacKenzie’s Bears
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you run into a grizzly, keep the following in mind: They have an aversion to authority. They never back down. And there’s no use playing dead. “There’s no such thing as neutral in the bear … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts, Edmonton theatre, Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Punctuate! Theatre, Rubaboo Festival
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Remembering dad: Empire of the Son is an artful memoir of a tempestuous father-son relationship. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “For a long time I did not like my father,” says the puckish, elegantly moustached figure before us in Empire of the Son. Like? Hmmm.… Who among us hasn’t felt the disconcerting ripple of a thought … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Club, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, stage memoirs, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre
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