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The Cirque du Soleil is back and the joint is bugged: OVO, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the outset, a giant egg sits onstage, full of mystery, ready for the hatching. With OVO (Portuguese for egg), the Cirque du Soleil, a storied Canadian company fallen on hard times and dormant for two … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, circus theatre, Cirque du Soleil, Edmonton theatre, OVO, Rogers Place
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Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fever Land, according to that heartbreaking/ riotous comedy by which Teatro La Quindicina returned to live performance last fall, is the kingdom where your spirits rise, vivacity accelerates, and the gray clammy feeling of routine is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began in some trepidation, cautiously, experimentally, with complicated logistics, under constant threat of delays and cancellations. But this was the season that live theatre actually returned to live and in-person. Yes, the pivot pivoted. We … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Roxy Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The dismantling of decorum: A Grand Time in the Rapids, an ingenious Teatro farce
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A newcomer — a properly composed English lady, in high heels and a frock — explains at the outset of A Grand Time in the Rapids that she’s crossed the Atlantic and come to Grand Rapids, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, farce, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Get down and festive, at an Edmonton festival this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a festive week in Edmonton live entertainment. The moment, both historically and seasonally, is at hand for you to venture forth and join in. It’s a choose-your-festival week; sample widely: the Found Festival, the New … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2022, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Grindstone Comedy Festival, New Mythic Works Series, Teatro La Quindicina, Thousand Faces Festival, Walterdale Theatre
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Doors will slam, towels will drop: Farren Timoteo goes farcical in A Grand Time in the Rapids at Teatro La Quindicina
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I love watching actors work hard,” says Farren Timoteo. “It’s one of my favourite things about theatre. I love it when you see them changing too much, running around too much, negotiating crazy entrances and exits … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Edmonton theatre, farce, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Surprise! Finding yourself at Found 2022: the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Found 2022 you could find yourself … following a story into a fort in the river valley. You could find yourself in a hidden nook of Old Strathcona, in a park, in a garbage enclosure … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival 2022, Old Strathcona, Popcorn Galaxies, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Sexual assault, scorched earth, and the fire that burns: Smoke, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Smoke is both of the air and the earth. And so is Elena Belyea’s challenging and elusive play, getting its Edmonton premiere at Co*Lab in a Tiny Bear Jaws production with two casts. Smoke is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws
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‘Immigrants get the job done’: Hamilton’s finally here, in a first-rate touring production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hamilton: it’s epic. It’s crazy rich in its language, music, and theatricality. And it explodes onto the stage with an offer, no, a demand, to focus both history and musical theatre from the outsider perspective. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway Across Canada, Edmonton theatre, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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Where there’s fire there’s … Smoke: assault, consent and gender in a play with two casts
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Smoke, getting its Edmonton premiere Thursday at Co*Lab, a woman opens her apartment door to discover that the past has showed up. Aiden’s -ex is there to confront her about allegations she’s made to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Co*Lab, Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws
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