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You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for … Edmonton’s Meme Queens
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for this…. Face it, 2020, a dumpster fire of a year, hasn’t given theatre people a lot to get happy about, creative though they are. But … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Elf on a Shel, Luc Tellier, Meme Queens, Sue Goberdhan
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2020: the strange year in Edmonton theatre (what just happened here? part 2)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020 was the year that a beaming singer arrived on the Varscona stage, draped herself in a chair centrestage to deliver a torchy number. And the host (Andrew MacDonald-Smith) calmly strode over and threw a sheet … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoris Projects, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Factory Theatre, Found Festival, Free Willies, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heat + Soul Fund, Northern Light Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Coldharts, Theatre Calgary, U of A Arts, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Mieko Ouchi: meet the Citadel’s new associate artistic director
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Stepping down and stepping up … on the same day.” That’s how Mieko Ouchi describes the double-sided moment in late November when Concrete Theatre announced her departure and the Citadel announced her arrival. It was dramatic … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mieko Ouchi, RBC Horizon Emerging Artists Program
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Waiting for … everything: a couple of online shows for our time
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Waiting and wondering in the weird no-man’s land between past and present: that would be us, in late 2020. Samuel Beckett is the playwright of choice for this moment. If there ever was a time to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bill Irwin, Edmonton theatre, Heidi Schreck, Irish Repertory Theater, Samuel Beckett
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The Free Willies: the ‘sounds and sweet airs’ of travelling troubadours
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Some time before the end of the month, it will happen. You’ll be in a park. Or a community playground. At a farmer’s market. Or chilling on a front deck. And suddenly, a little troupe of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Signs of life: live theatre is coming back, with cautious first steps
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And they’re back! Very cautiously, of course, experimentally, a little tentatively, with ultra-sanitized jazz hands. And not full-blast: nary a large-scale musical in sight, needless to say. But live theatre is starting to be back … … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, BIPOC theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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The might-have-been hits home: it’s Fringe Eve in Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For months I knew it would come. The weirdest week of a weird summer. The week the Fringe doesn’t happen. It’s a might-have-been that leaves us face to face with the strangest, most unrecognizable of vistas … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, FringeLiveStream, FringeTV, The Fringe That Never Was
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Remembering the enchantment: Brent Carver in Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There was an unmistakeable magic about seeing Brent Carver onstage. People felt it; they remembered the enchantment. I was struck again by that with the many heartfelt responses that came my way with the terrible news … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brent Carver, Broadway theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, John Neville, Robin Phillips, Stratford Festival, Tony Awards
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What do you know now that you didn’t know on March 12? 12thnight asked theatre artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s been a learning curve.” Once more, with feeling. Since March I’ve heard the line from theatre artists too many times to count. And it’s been delivered in every intonation and cadence: exasperation (sardonic or direct), … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, The Maggie Tree, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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