Search
Patreon
Categories
Category Archives: Features
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
Posted in Features, Reviews
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
Comments Off on Adventures in pandemic theatre: a mystery box, a romantic comedy, a (very) short film fest, and more
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
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival
Comments Off on Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival
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
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Edmonton theatre, Eric Rose, Ghost River Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Young People's Theatre
Comments Off on Unwrapping an adventure: La Boîte Sensorielle delivers a box to your place
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
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Makram Ayache, Peter Hinton, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project, theatre podcasts
Comments Off on An ancient vision, a new cosmology: Makram Ayache’s The Hooves Belonged To The Deer
Making indie theatre just got less lonely: RISER goes national and comes to Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even at the best of times (which I think we can all agree this is not) It’s hard, high-risk work producing indie theatre. Bright creative innovative ideas that find their natural habitat in independent theatre arrive … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER, Why Not Theatre
Comments Off on Making indie theatre just got less lonely: RISER goes national and comes to Edmonton
Real people reporting from the real world: COVID Collections, a short film online at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the pandemic grinds on, don’t you find it becomes harder and harder to imagine watching the inevitable outbreak of solo confessional COVID-inspired monologue shows in our collective future? You can conjure them in your mind’s … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
Comments Off on Real people reporting from the real world: COVID Collections, a short film online at SkirtsAfire
Dressing the stars: a star designer. Leona Brausen creates stroll-by theatre in a costume installation at the Varscona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So what do wealthy socialites wear to dinner parties in ‘30s Budapest anyhow? Or to auctions in ’20s upstate New York? Breezy playboys in ‘50s Manhattan with their pleated trousers, worn high and sharp like their … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnigh.ca, costume design, Edmonton theatre, Leona Brausen, Teatro La Quindiina, Varscona Theatre, Viola Desmond
Comments Off on Dressing the stars: a star designer. Leona Brausen creates stroll-by theatre in a costume installation at the Varscona
Live theatre. It’s been a year, and Act II awaits
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hard to believe. But it’s been a year. One year ago (or a lifetime) this very weekend our lives changed. In ways that don’t feel temporary. I went to the opening of Heisenberg at Shadow Theatre … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, pandemic art
Comments Off on Live theatre. It’s been a year, and Act II awaits
New faces in theatre: meet creator/performer/producer/activist Sue Goberdhan
They’re young, bright, and unstoppably creative. And, pandemic be damned, their adaptable, flexible talents are already lighting up the Edmonton theatre scene. In this 12thnight series you’ll meet some of E-town’s sought-after up-and-comers, artists whose work, on- and backstage, is already … Continue reading
Posted in Features
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Could Be Cool Theatre, Edmonton podcasts, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Sue Goberdhan
Comments Off on New faces in theatre: meet creator/performer/producer/activist Sue Goberdhan
