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Meet nine exciting artists at The Virtual Indigenous Artist Hub
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This month you’ll get to meet and mingle with some of the country’s most exciting creators — nine Indigenous artists from Alberta, across Canada and beyond. The meeting place: The Virtual Indigenous Artist Hub. The Hub … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, The Virtual Indigenous Artist Hub
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Finding a new way at Found, the festival of unexpected encounters
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Dwennimmen, Edmonton arts, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Le Fixe Theatre, Story City
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Home Again: a journey to the desert in podcast form at Nextfest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was when the cast was rehearsing the kissing scene in Home Again that playwright/director Calla Wright knew, irrevocably, that Nextfest 2020 had created its own kooky creative wonderland. For one thing Home Again, which runs … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Citadel Young Acting Company, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2020, Nextfest Arts Company
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“We’re back to who we are!” Murray Utas launches Fringe Revue
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you were in any doubt before that, the moment in mid-April the mighty Edmonton Fringe pulled the plug on its 39th annual edition in August, was a capital-M Moment of confirmation that the world had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Westbury Theatre
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‘How do I find my place in the world?’ Meet Nextfest actor/playwright Dylan Thomas-Bouchier
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Keyano College, Nextfest 2020
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The “what’s next?” comes to you: the 2020 Nextfest goes online
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “O my gosh!” declares Nextfest director Ellen Chorley, who has a great and natural talent for celebration. “I’m absolutely blown away by how special and magical it is! I’m so thrilled!” The playwright/ actor/ director/ mentor/ … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Nextfest, Nextfest Arts Company, Theatre Network
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A world of uncertainty: a playground for improv. Dungeons, Dragons, and Die-Nasty
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a world of uncertainty, improv makes perfect sense. It’s no coincidence that in a crisis, award-winning artists in this improv-crazy theatre town have stepped up to the challenge, and improvised new ways to take performance … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Colin Mochrie, Dad's Garage, Die-Nasty, Dungeons and Dragons, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Mark Meer, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Girl Brain goes the (social) distance in a new series of online comedy sketches
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catapult Pictures, Edmonton theatre, Girl Brain, sketch comedy
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The Desperate Izmores: portrait of a marriage in crisis. Don’t you dare laugh.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca She’s bored — with a chaser of exasperation and an adenoidal voice that makes your fillings hurt. He’s a sad-sack sulker, a dimwit who’d be a poster boy for morosity (if that ever becomes an actual … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belinda Cornish, Die-Nasty, Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Ron Pederson, The Izmores, YouTube comedy
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FringeLiveStream: a new Fringe season venture in bringing live performances direct to your screen
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A summer without Fringes? It’s a strange and defoliated calendar for us audiences — and a daunting one for theatre artists, already struggling to survive the shutting down of the performing arts industry. Fringe veteran Jon … Continue reading
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Tagged #CanadaPerforms, 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, FringeLiveStream, North American Fringe Theatre Festivals
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