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A new (and all-Canadian) season at L’UniThéâtre launches with Le Palier
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the play that launches the new, all-Canadian season tonight at L’UniThéâtre, Alberta’s only professional francophone theatre company, an unlikely friendship blossoms, fast, in an unlikely place. As director Steve Jodoin explains, Le Palier opens with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton francophone theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kleine Compagnie, L'UniThéâtre, La Cité francophone, Satellite Theatre, Théâtre La Seizième
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Vinyl Cafe: The Musical. Stuart McLean’s beloved characters come to life in the Citadel’s new holiday musical, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the new Canadian holiday musical that premieres next week at the Citadel, characters we know well do something they’ve never done before. They step out of the radio and off the page — and, for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, CBC Radio, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Stuart McLean, The Vinyl Cafe
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Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Diaspora Diaries Collective, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Mile Zero Dance
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How tough do you have to be? Surviving trauma: Tough Guy gets a visceral premiere production, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Tough Guy, an exhilarating new play by Hayley Moorhouse, a queer up-and-coming filmmaker tries to justify turning their camera on their friends, survivors of a shooting in queer nightclub mere days before, and reeling from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton indie theatre, Edmonton theatre, Persistent Myth Productions
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An activist crime caper? Nicole Moeller’s Wildcat at Workshop West, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Timeliness? Irony? The world provides, and sometimes theatre just nails it. There’s something downright uncanny about the arrival onstage of Wildcat in a week that will live in infamy in Alberta labour history. Workers’ rights, injustice, resistance … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week of bounty in Edmonton theatre (your biggest problem is choice). Much-awaited new plays are premiering and so is a full-bodied multi-generational dance/theatre extravaganza. A gem of a new musical continues its run. Continuing … Continue reading
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Tagged Biederman Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mile Zero Dance, Persistent Myth Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Tragedy and queer joy: Hayley Moorhouse’s Tough Guy, a preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Do you remember where you were when you heard …? There are moments in life when you know your answer will be instantly available in your memory, forever. Hayley Moorhouse, whose new play Tough Guy premieres Thursday … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Persistent Myth Productions, RISER, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘A life to live, a death confronted’: Billy Bishop Goes To War, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Frequent flyers might think of the Toronto Island airport before the man. But the much-loved two-hander musical that Edmonton Repertory Theatre has chosen for its inaugural season returns to us another frequent flyer, a medal-bedecked World … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Biederman Theatre, Billy Bishop, Canadian World War I history, Edmonton Repertory Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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‘A major breach of technical security at the theatre’ cancels opening weekend of Workshop West’s Wildcat
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you’re excited to see the much-anticipated premiere of the new Nicole Moeller crime caper Wildcat at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, which was to have opened tonight, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The production’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Gateway Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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