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Meet nine exciting artists at The Virtual Indigenous Artist Hub
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This month you’ll get to meet and mingle with some of the country’s most exciting creators — nine Indigenous artists from Alberta, across Canada and beyond. The meeting place: The Virtual Indigenous Artist Hub. The Hub … Continue reading
Finding a new way at Found, the festival of unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If ever there was a moment in history when artists and audiences have had to find each other in new, experimental, reimagined ways, this has got to be it, my stir-crazy friends. And, hey, Edmonton has … Continue reading
Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lessons from the pandemic: “Phases” may come (and go). But a great triple-sided mystery remains. You can throw open theatre doors. But will people want to return? Under what conditions? And when? The good news is … Continue reading
Dreams delayed: a cross-border 2020 theatre story starring designer Stephanie Bahniuk
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stephanie Bahniuk is sitting on the front porch of the 1850s house in the leafy university town of New Haven, Conn. where she’s lived for three years. She’s musing on the way life’s big-M Moments can … Continue reading
Looking to the future: the Citadel moves its season to 2021
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight “I used to be the good news guy,” sighs Daryl Cloran. “I got to call people to tell them ‘hey we’re gonna do your show’ and ‘hey, you’re in the cast’….” COVID has changed all that. … Continue reading
Letters of the Pandemic: be-wigged, bothered, and bewildered by the times
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You knew this already. But it bears repetition, in an era that has deprived us of the hug: and the handshake: never under-estimate the ingenuity of our artists. What happens when an actor and a writer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, conspiracy theories, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, Marty Chan, pandemic, Stephanie Wolfe
‘How do I find my place in the world?’ Meet Nextfest actor/playwright Dylan Thomas-Bouchier
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My brain is spinning with this show,” says actor/playwright Dylan Thomas-Bouchier “It’s very much my conversation with myself.… How do I, as a new artist, find my my place in the world?” That show is Finding … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Keyano College, Nextfest 2020
Girl Brain goes the (social) distance in a new series of online comedy sketches
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Proposition: there is a funny side to everything. If you approach from oblique angles. While Ellie Heath was spending a month in quarantine at her mom’s place, she overheard a rambunctious maternal Zoom cocktail get-together. “Mom … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catapult Pictures, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, sketch comedy
“Where are you?” Tracks, an online experiment, takes us home with the cast.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A preamble to Tracks, the online theatre that’s happening this week on your own screen…. Ever since going out to theatre, my way of life for forever, abruptly ended a thousand years ago (or 10 weeks, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Beth Dart, digital theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Mac Brock, Zoom theatre
Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Live theatre gave Sandy Moser the big-M Moment that turned everything around for her. And she’s returning the favour, though she’d never put it that way in a million years. “What would I be doing otherwise?” … Continue reading
