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Celebrate Will’s birthday: see who he cut from Hamlet before opening night
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thoughts for Shakespeare’s birthday weekend.… It’s entirely possible there’s a theatre play ready for germination in every playwright brain. By that I mean a play about the theatre, and there’s a wealth of raw material to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Lyle Victor Albert, one-act play festival, plays about theatre, Stage Struck
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Escape into the playful grown-up world of art: Chris Craddock’s Irma Voth at Theatre Network. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Enter the Roxy, and see what a sense of possibility looks like. A shallow stage is dominated by a beautiful translucent wall made entirely of framed windows. Windows that will glow promisingly, conjure paintings or cityscapes, … Continue reading
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Battle of the bone hunters: The Bone Wars is Punctuate!’s biggest show yet
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Bone Wars wasn’t always going to be theatre for grown-ups to take kids to. Far from it. Punctuate! Theatre, after all, got its raison d’être, and exclamation point, tackling plays about the conflicted descendants … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta dinosaurs, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre
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Cinderella: the Prince is having a ball! and also an election. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Cinderella has always been the poster girl for the poor but upwardly mobile. Bide your time, miserable lackey: your dreams can come true. Karma’s on your side, long-term, if you’re oppressed by snarly step-relatives and a … Continue reading
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Chris Craddock talks about Irma Voth: novel, theatre, and film meet onstage
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Naturally playwright/ actor/ master improviser/ filmmaker/ screenwriter/ “double-dad” Chris Craddock is relaxed at pre-12-hour rehearsal breakfast in Strathcona last week. Why wouldn’t he be? Surely, his life of late is a flat landscape of non-eventful tranquillity … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Craddock, Edmonton theatre, Irma Voth, Miriam Toews, Theatre Network
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The end of the line in Dublin by night: the poetry of Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Irish triptych: Three brick gangways, with the sinister look of autopsy slabs waiting for a body, up against three brick walls that tip forward and loom. Eerie industrial white noise as static in a dark theatre. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mark O'Rowe, Wild Side Productions
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The resurrection of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Mayfield: a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a diverse T-shirt and jean crowd that drifts onto the Mayfield stage at the start of Jesus Christ Superstar. There’s even a swaggering older dude in a suit who strides in, and looks slightly sinister … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Edmonton theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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Get your Fairy Godmother on the case: Cinderella is coming to town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight. ca “Impossible, for a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage./ Impossible, for a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage….” Impossible? Well, hang on … actually, there is a precedent. And you’ll see … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, musical theatre, Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Wanna tour night-time Dublin? Terminus takes us on a “metaphysical odyssey”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Good storytelling isn’t just telling,” says director Jim Guedo. “A good storyteller makes you feel it’s happening in the present…. It’s in the now.” And that ‘now’ gets darker, stranger, more brutal in the fantastical urban … Continue reading
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9 parts of desire: a review of The Maggie Tree production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca War can be survived (humans are extraordinarily resilient). But the experience can never be un-experienced. You’ll be carrying that thought with you out of the theatre when you see 9 Parts of Desire, the remarkable documentary/play … Continue reading
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