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What to see at Find Your Fringe: some thoughts to get you started
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. Yup, the biggest and oldest Fringe festival on the continent is a bona fide grassroots Edmonton invention, crazy, improbable, irresistible. And … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2024, Previews
Tagged burlesque, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe 2024, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, House of Hush, Low Hanging Fruits, Monster Theatre, SNAFU
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Find Your Fringe and get your tickets: they’re on sale today at noon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Amazingly, it’s August. And Find Your Fringe has found you, fellow Fringe adventurers. Tickets go on sale at noon today for the 43rd annual edition of Edmonton’s international summer theatre extravaganza, the continent’s biggest and oldest … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2024, News/Views
Tagged Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Old Strathcona
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How did it all go wrong? Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, a review
By Liz NIcholls, 12thnight.ca On a sunny afternoon in the Edmonton river valley, the old Fort looks positively benign. And when we gather in the courtyard for a performance of Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, happy endings, love stories, alliances, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival, Nextfest, Old Fort, Romeo and Juliet, Thou, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Summer! theatre in New York with trimmings
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca NEW YORK – On a sultry Saturday afternoon 10 days ago under Manhattan Bridge, in an amiable queue for a cone at Brooklyn Ice Cream, an elegant French woman from Basel explains to me, en français, … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway theatre, Edmonton theatre, Guggenhim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York Theatre, Off-Broadway theatre
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Reimagining history in a cautionary tale: Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, a Thou Art Here epic at the Fort
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began with a vision of an Indigenous/settler Romeo and Juliet, star-cross’d lovers reaching across the colonial divide. And gradually a bigger, richer, more complex story — poised at an historically critical juncture in our collective … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival, Thou Art Here Theatre
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A visceral reverb that stays with you: Brick Shithouse at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s stayed with me, the way dangerous theatre does. So I wanted to tell you about Brick Shithouse. I was lucky to catch the last performance of the fenceless theatre production that sold out its whole run … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2024, Tesserae Factory
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The breezy and the sharp in a comedy of (bad) manners: Private Lives at Teatro Live! A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I think that very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives….” argues Amanda in Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy of (bad) manners, the season finale at Teatro Live!. It’s a declaration on … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton theatre, Noel Coward, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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Teatro Live! announces a new season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Teatro Live!’s upcoming 43rd season, announced this past weekend, are revivals of two seminal Stewart Lemoine comedies of very different hue. And the 2024-2025 lineup at a company devoted to comedy in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Neil Simon, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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So … what could possibly go wrong? The Play That Goes Wrong at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre is a risky business. And there’s a show onstage in town designed expressly, with single-minded high-precision calculation, to mine the comic gold in that. The Play That Goes Wrong, currently making people laugh en … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre Company, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary
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Classic comedy: a summertime weekend in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton, look what’s waiting for you onstage this weekend. Something about summer inspires our theatre artists to tangle with the classics, reimagine them, put them in new shapes: A classic playwright (you guessed, Shakespeare), in … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2024, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Teatro Live!, Tesserae Factor, Theatre Prospero, Thousand Faces Festival, Walterdale Theatre
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