Category Archives: Previews

Find Your Fringe: further thoughts on what to see, from 12thnight

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s the eve of the 43rd annual Edmonton International Fringe Theatre festival. And you have 216 shows in 38 venues to choose from. Don’t be daunted, be pumped. Be curious as you dive into the Fringe multi-verse. … Continue reading →

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Play into musical: risk-takers at the Fringe. Rob and Chris (Bobby + Tina) – A New Musical

Posted on August 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Whenever you wonder if the Fringe losing its experimental zest, along comes a project that embraces the original risk-taker’s proposition of the festival. A show that’s all about having a bright idea rather than a finished … Continue reading →

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What to see at Find Your Fringe: some thoughts to get you started

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where the continent’s fringe phenom began. Yup, the biggest and oldest Fringe festival on the continent is a bona fide grassroots Edmonton invention, crazy, improbable, irresistible. And … Continue reading →

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Reimagining history in a cautionary tale: Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, a Thou Art Here epic at the Fort

Posted on July 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began with a vision of an Indigenous/settler Romeo and Juliet, star-cross’d lovers reaching across the colonial divide. And gradually a bigger, richer, more complex story — poised at an historically critical juncture in our collective … Continue reading →

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Teatro Live! announces a new season

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the centre of Teatro Live!’s upcoming 43rd season, announced this past weekend, are revivals of two seminal Stewart Lemoine comedies of very different hue. And the 2024-2025 lineup at a company devoted to comedy in … Continue reading →

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Fast and furious: the righteous frustration of Ashleigh Hicks’ characters in Brick Shithouse, at Found Fest 2024

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The largest production in the Found Festival’s 13-year history of unexpected encounters with art opens this week in a place you might not even know about yet. As in most of Found’s surprises, that place is … Continue reading →

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Finding Found, the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What’s going on here?” There’s a question that tickles the perpetrators of the Found Festival, devoted to art (and encounters with artists) in unexpected places. For a dozen Julys, no alley or park, no warehouse, or … Continue reading →

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Lost dreams restored in theatre magic: Michel(le) at L’UniThéâtre

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Dramatic, tragic, eventful, and very singular.” That’s how Joey Lespérance describes the real-life story that inspired his first-ever solo play Michel(le). The L’Unithéâtre season finale opens Thursday at La Cité francophone (in French with English surtitles), … Continue reading →

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Our revels now have started: Nadien Chu stars in Freewill Shakespeare’s The Tempest, in an outdoor hockey rink near you

Posted on June 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The play that launches the 35th annual Freewill Shakespeare Festival this week — destined for four outdoor community league hockey rinks — is full of strange transformations. The Tempest, one of Shakespeare’s late-period “romances,” begins with the … Continue reading →

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Finding a creative spark that had gone missing: theatre director Dennis Garnhum walks the Camino

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

“The noise in my head has been quieted by the gentle sounds of the ocean….” — Toward Beauty by Dennis Garnhum By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This is the story of a theatre artist who found something he thought he’d lost … Continue reading →

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