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Grab your headphones and go for a walk: Would You Wander, a nature/ storytelling podcast at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You’ve come to the right place. Exactly where you are…. So c’mon.” – Episode 0, Would You Wander Yesterday I went on a stroll by the river. And there was a friendly voice in my ear. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2021, Nextfest Arts Company, Sam Jeffery, Theatre Network, theatre podcasts, Would You Wander
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Hansel and Gretel go solo in a new digital Alberta Musical Theatre production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re the most famous brother-sister act in the fairy tale canon, joint stars of a cautionary tale about injudicious junk food consumption in the woods. Now Hansel and Gretel are back together again. Closer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Musical Theatre Company, Edmonton theatre, fairy tale musicals
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Nextfest at 26: catching the drift of the new wave of artists, online again for a second year
It’s the eve of Nextfest, the freewheeling multi-disciplinary Edmonton festival that for more than a quarter of a century has sought out, showcased, and celebrated the original creative ideas of the next generation of emerging artists. You’ll meet some of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest Arts Company, Theatre Network
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Solving a mystery, being Hamlet, streaming a play, climbing a mountain, and other theatrical pursuits this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a puzzling world where much has gone way wrong, cause and effect have gone their separate ways, and logic has gone AWOL, there’s satisfaction to be had in collaborating with others to consider evidence and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, interactive theatre, National Arts Centre, Northern Light Theatre, The Fox Den Collective, Thou Art Here Theatre, Transformations Project
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The journey of the outsider: The Ugly Duchess, streaming finale of the Northern Light Theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That night I dreamt of the faraway land where the ugly women are loved by the blind men, the men that were the pincushions of cupid’s arrows….” The Ugly Duchess by Janet Munsil Direct to you from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Janet Munsil, Margaret Maultasch, Northern Light Theatre
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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading
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Tagged #NotYourInspiration, 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, CRIPSiE, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, Punctuate! Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Tamarra Lessard, The National Transformations Project, The Transformers
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Adventures in pandemic theatre: a mystery box, a romantic comedy, a (very) short film fest, and more
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre’s strange, circuitous and sometimes wonderful route through the pandemic, chapter umpteen. Let me tell you about my week. •For three days the mystery box sat on the dining room table, wrapped in silver. Light, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Factory Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Matthew MacKenzie, Musical Theatreworks, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Psst.… Wanna have fun, fast, on a blowy pandemic Sunday? I went to an international film festival this morning. And I saw all 12 jury selections, in their entirety, before my second coffee. Surely the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival
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Unwrapping an adventure: La Boîte Sensorielle delivers a box to your place
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life can be full of surprises. You, my friend, are going to get a mysterious package delivered to your door. It’s wrapped; it has your name on it. But you mustn’t open it until showtime a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Edmonton theatre, Eric Rose, Ghost River Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Young People's Theatre
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An ancient vision, a new cosmology: Makram Ayache’s The Hooves Belonged To The Deer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A year of dizzying optics. The walls have both closed in on us — an audience of one wrapped in our own pandemic carapaces in front of our own personal screens — and they’ve blown wide … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Makram Ayache, Peter Hinton, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project, theatre podcasts
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