Category Archives: Features

Finding a new way at Found, the festival of unexpected encounters

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Dreams delayed: a cross-border 2020 theatre story starring designer Stephanie Bahniuk

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Looking to the future: the Citadel moves its season to 2021

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Letters of the Pandemic: be-wigged, bothered, and bewildered by the times

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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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‘How do I find my place in the world?’ Meet Nextfest actor/playwright Dylan Thomas-Bouchier

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Girl Brain goes the (social) distance in a new series of online comedy sketches

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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“Where are you?” Tracks, an online experiment, takes us home with the cast.

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Sandy Moser: mask-maker to the stars

Posted on May 16, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

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 →

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Tracks: choose your route in an online theatre adventure from Amoris Projects

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started out as an ambulatory theatre adventure. Tracks let its audiences loose to wander in an unexpected assortment of rooms and spaces — a theatre box office, dressing rooms, bathrooms, the playwright’s car — to … Continue reading →

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