Category Archives: Features

Adventures in pandemic theatre: a mystery box, a romantic comedy, a (very) short film fest, and more

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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Unwrapping an adventure: La Boîte Sensorielle delivers a box to your place

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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An ancient vision, a new cosmology: Makram Ayache’s The Hooves Belonged To The Deer

Posted on March 24, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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Making indie theatre just got less lonely: RISER goes national and comes to Edmonton

Posted on March 21, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Real people reporting from the real world: COVID Collections, a short film online at SkirtsAfire

Posted on March 18, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Dressing the stars: a star designer. Leona Brausen creates stroll-by theatre in a costume installation at the Varscona

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Live theatre. It’s been a year, and Act II awaits

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Finding a path forward for the Edmonton Fringe: Adam Mitchell has thoughts about that as he leaves the festival

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 25 years at the Fringe, he’s been the production manager, the technical director, the operations manager for a 33,000 square foot multi-theatre complex that started out as a bus barn. He’s been a Fringe venue … Continue reading →

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New faces in theatre: meet creator/performer/producer/activist Sue Goberdhan

Posted on February 27, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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