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Storytelling on film: Artists & Love (The Instagram Miniseries) at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The “let’s see if…” impulse finds a natural home at Nextfest, Edmonton’s 26-year-old festival of artists emerging into professional careers. By personality it’s a veritable convention of natural multi-disciplinary experimenters. Have a look at the festival’s … Continue reading
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Arkangel: piecing together the mysteries of the past in a small town, sci-fi/horror from Liam Salmon at Nextfest.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hello? Hello, can you hear me?” — Arkangel by Liam Salmon The “sci-fi/ horror play that premieres on the Nextfest virtual MainStage Saturday revels in the elusive, the unknown, the mysterious. Which in a way makes Liam … Continue reading
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Hansel and Gretel go solo in a new digital Alberta Musical Theatre production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re the most famous brother-sister act in the fairy tale canon, joint stars of a cautionary tale about injudicious junk food consumption in the woods. Now Hansel and Gretel are back together again. Closer … Continue reading
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Nextfest at 26: catching the drift of the new wave of artists, online again for a second year
It’s the eve of Nextfest, the freewheeling multi-disciplinary Edmonton festival that for more than a quarter of a century has sought out, showcased, and celebrated the original creative ideas of the next generation of emerging artists. You’ll meet some of … Continue reading
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Lost sock? Ghost in the garage? Investigators from the Ministry of Mundane Mysteries to the rescue, by phone
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What on earth could have happened to my copy of Alice in Wonderland? I’ve looked everywhere. And while we’re on the subject of missing, my polka-dot frame cheap-o sunglasses have been AWOL for 18 months? And … Continue reading
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Tagged audio theatre, Edmonton theatre, immersive theatre, International Children's Festival of the Arts, Outside The March, St. Albert
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A theatrical adventure at home: Mountain Goat Mountain at the Kids Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I think you’re going to like it. I really do…. It’s designed, choreographed, and performed by you.” A bright and empathetic eight-year-old (Henrietta Mettler), is leading us through our Act I preparations for a family alpine … Continue reading
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‘Just write your truth’: Songs To No One, a new audio song cycle from Dammitammy Productions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In one way, of course, it’s been a suffocating year for artists. In another, an invitation to unusual breakout pathways of creativity. “It feels like I’m holding my breath,” Chariz Faulmino sings in the Rebecca Merkley … Continue reading
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The journey of the outsider: The Ugly Duchess, streaming finale of the Northern Light Theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That night I dreamt of the faraway land where the ugly women are loved by the blind men, the men that were the pincushions of cupid’s arrows….” The Ugly Duchess by Janet Munsil Direct to you from … Continue reading
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Concrete Theatre’s Sprouts Festival grows new plays, online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton’s Concrete Theatre, a company with a national profile in theatre-for-young-audiences, is into its mid-30s with a new pair of co-artistic directors — and in this strange pandemic time, the need to re-invent one of its … Continue reading
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To be or not to be: Hamlet served six ways, from Thou Art Here Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The time is out of joint (I think we can all agree with Prince of Denmark on that). Isolating, infuriating, anxiety-making, rippling with hints of mortality and “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh … Continue reading
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