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A new Ellen Chorley play is the centrepiece of the upcoming Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of Northern Light Theatre’s upcoming season, announced Saturday, is a new play by one of Edmonton’s most unusual artists. Ellen Chorley, the director of Nextfest since 2016, is an award-winning playwright, actor, director, dramaturg, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Songs My Mother Never Sung Me: an opera for a hearing son and a deaf mom
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I learned to sign before I could speak,” says Dave Clarke, who’s highly articulate, to say the least, in his second language. There’s an intriguing contradiction built right into the architecture of Clarke’s multi-angled theatre career … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Caroline Howarth, Chinook Series, Concrete Theatre, Dave Clarke, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mieko Ouchi, opera, sound design, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival
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How to feel the breeze at Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a town that needed a chinook … an E-town story. And yes, we’re having one. The Chinook Series, which opens tonight, is a resource-pooling experience between arts groups with a view to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Sinergia, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, bharata natyam, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, Chinook Series, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Good Women Dance Collective, Hong Kong Exile, Mile Zero Dance, Rubaboo Arts Festival, Sinergia, Sound Off, Third Rail Project, Workshop West
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The Citadel’s upcoming 54th season: local stars in an international galaxy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The new logo is just the tip-off. Monday afternoon at Edmonton’s largest playhouse artistic director Daryl Cloran unveiled an ambitious upcoming Citadel season — its 54th and his third as the architect of the company lineup. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, Mischief Theatre, Pulitzer Prize, Todd Babiak
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From story to myth: Lake of the Strangers asks “how do we heal?”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Lake of the Strangers, the solo play that premieres this week at the Backstage Theatre, you’ll meet two Indigenous brothers, 10 and seven, on a mission out in the natural world. “It’s their last summer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hunter Cardinal, indigenous theatre, Jacqueline Cardinal, Nehayawin
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The Cardiac Shadow, a multi-disciplinary exploration of human resilience at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We were the thermometers of these men. The mercury was in our veins, rising and falling with every heartbeat. Our bodies measured the temperature of death.” The Cardiac Shadow, Clay McLeod Chapman In the play the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Ravensbruck concentration camp, The Good Women Dance Collective, Trevor Schmidt
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The collapse of the blue-collar dream: Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, comes to the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “They don’t understand that human decency is at the core of everything. They squeeze us like a sponge, drain every last drop of blood out and then throw us away.” — Stan the bartender in Sweat, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, Sweat, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre
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Hell tour via the circus: Firefly Theatre’s Inferno
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Go to hell. That’s what Jocelyn Ahlf and Belinda Cornish have been wanting to do for years. And now they have. Firefly Theatre’s 14-performer workshop production of Inferno, that takes to the stage, and also the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, aerial arts, circus theatre, Dante, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre, The Inferno, Westbury Theatre
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Minerva, Queen of the Handcuffs: a woman trapped in a man’s world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “In life you feel you’re trapped in a situation and there’s no out, no gap, no light. Everyone can relate to that feeling of being stuck, in some way…. There’s a real-ness to that.” — Miranda … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, Edmonton theatre, escapology, Ghostwriter Theatre, magic shows, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network
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