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Playing the game: culturecapital, that is, the custom-made trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two brainy Vancouver-based performance artists with an appetite for games have custom-made one for us — an original collectible trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta. Welcome to culturecapital, by the team of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre
“It’s what happens when you say Yes!” Feel the breeze at the 2020 Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook “is what happens when you say Yes!” laughs Vanessa Sabourin. She’s talking about the cutting-edge curated performance series that skips as lightly across artistic disciplines as the surprising winter breeze with the built-in warming trend. … Continue reading
What makes life worth living? Every Brilliant Thing makes a list, and star John Ullyatt takes you through it
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca He’s a mainstage leading man with character actor instincts. We’ve seen him clamour fearlessly through the audience, as the tarnished extrovert MC in Cabaret. Or talk to us directly as the stage manager in Burning Bluebeard. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Dave Horak, Duncan MacMillan, Edmonton theatre, John Ullyatt, Jonny Donohoe, suicidal depression
Shakespeare gets a Cree cosmology re-fit: Pawâkan Macbeth arrives for Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feel the breeze. Chinook, the resource-sharing multi-disciplinary series devoted to melting our preconceptions and expanding our experience of live performance and creation, is at hand. It’s a measure of creative vision (and chutzpah) that the 2020 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival
Catalyst’s new musical takes us into the girls’ club of elite secret agents. Meet the creators of The Invisible
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Espionage: Upstagers and exhibitionists need not apply. In the long-awaited new Catalyst musical that finally gets its Edmonton debut Friday on the Maclab stage, we infiltrate a shadowy, high-risk world of wartime spies where the job … Continue reading
Ketchup ketchup everywhere! The fearless Colleen Murphy revisits Shakespeare’s grisliest play
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Colleen Murphy has undertaken some audacious theatrical projects in her time. Who else in this country do you go to for a 23-actor play with a time span of 500 years, and a polar bear protagonist … Continue reading
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Tagged bouffon clowning, Colleen Murphy, Edmonton theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Rumble Theatre, Theatre Network, Titus Andronicus
Can the future be gender-free? Nick Green’s new comedy Happy Birthday Baby J wonders. Meet the playwright.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca When Nick Green moved to Toronto 10 years ago this month, Edmonton theatre sustained a double loss. There was Green the charismatic young actor (and U of A theatre grad) we’d seen in Catalyst’s Frankenstein musical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dora Awards, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Guys in Disguise, John Hudson, Nick Green, Shadow Theatre
“See our bodies. Hear our stories.” A complex human portrait of disability in Cost of Living, says actor/activist Teal Sherer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I live my life. I work. I’m married. I have a kid. I deal with the same things as anybody else.” The voice on the phone from Seattle is amused. Teal Sherer is used to being … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Teal Sherer, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
Who am I? Where do I belong? A couple of theatre kids in love in Ellen Chorley’s Everybody Loves Robbie, at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the comedy that premieres Friday at Northern Light Theatre, a starry high school couple, drama kids who live and breathe the oxygenated air of musical theatre, come up against doubts. The kind of doubts that … Continue reading
But soft, enter our first Winter Shakespeare Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the playwright has said (zestfully, in Twelfth Night) “this is very midsummer madness.” Except that it’s in the bleak midwinter. Have a peek at Edmonton’s newest festival, the Winter Shakespeare Festival inside the vintage wooden … Continue reading
