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Fringe review: Prophecy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Prophecy (Stage 31, Strathcona Baptist Church) “Ignorance can be bliss, but knowledge is not power,” Prophecy tells us in this vivid meditation on a violent male world seen through the eyes of women. They see destruction … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cassandra, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Greek tragedy, Impossible Mongoose, Jessy Ardern, Prophecy, Trojan War
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And on my summer holidays … I went to the Winnipeg Fringe
This is just a little note to tell you that I’m about to start posting 12thnight.ca reviews of shows I saw on my excursion last month to the country’s second-largest Fringe festival, in Winnipeg. They’re 16 of the shows you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Fringe reviews, Winnipeg Fringe
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All in the family: Ryan history is onstage at the Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something big and important, something you could call life-changing, happened to Kate Ryan 31 years ago. And it sheds light, both the theatrical and the personal kind, on why her theatre company, The Plain Janes, is … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2017
Tagged Bridget Ryan, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Kate Ryan, MacEwan University, Maralyn Ryan, St. Albert Children's Theatre, The Plain Janes
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Edmonton Fringe 2017: a selection of hit return engagements
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca True, the unpredictability factor is built into the 220-show edition of the Edmonton Fringe that opens Thursday. But hits do have a way of showing up again. Will they be back in buffed-up, revised, re-muscled, enhanced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blindside, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Erik de Waal, Falling Awake, Jem Rolls, Leo Szilard, Nobody's Business Theatre, Ragmop, Red-Headed Stepchild, Stéphanie Morin-Robert, Teatro La Quindicina, The Exquisite Hour
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Edmonton Fringe 2017: what to see at our big summer theatre bash
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So… what looks good? Yes, my friends, the Fringe, Edmonton’s favourite summer festival, is back Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. A Midsummer Night’s Fringe, the 11 day-and- night 36th annual edition … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Midsummer Night's Fringe, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Festival
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Theatre Network’s 43rd season opens with a Trout premiere
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!/ The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun/ The frumious Bandersnatch!” — Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found Theatre Network ventures through the looking glass … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged Annie Baker, Bradley Moss, Edmonton Actors Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Kill Your Television Theatre, Lewis Carroll, Métia Mutt, Nextfest, Roxy on Gateway, Sheldon Elter, The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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That masked man is back: a new Phantom of the Opera sings the music of the night
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained….” With this opening gambit, and signature organ arpeggio, a 1911 beauty-and-the-beast potboiler by an obscure Parisian hack/bon … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway Across Canada, Broadway musicals, ca, Edmonton theatre, Jubilee Auditorium, Phantom of the Opera
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Getting your Gasp! back. The Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: a cabinet of the curiouser and curiouser
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A burnished antique music box opens, and suddenly, set in motion, is a trapeze act with no trapeze. A strong man plants his feet and flings a beautiful woman into the air again and again; she … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belle Epoque, circus, Cirque du Soleil, grand chapiteau, Kurios, Northlands Park, Victorian carnival
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