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Exploring space and time, with a dog: Jezebel, At The Still Point
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On a break from rehearsal this past week, the cast of Jezebel, At the Still Point are hanging out in the Theatre Network green room. One of them — the one with the speaking role — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Ainsley Hillyard, Bumble Bear Productions, Chinook Festival, dance theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, movement theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Theatre Network
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Pinocchio: a new production of an Alberta Opera original opens the Roxy Performance Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Seven years ago, a musical-writing duo with a string of sassy re-angled fairy-tale musicals for kids to their credit got their mitts on a different sort of adventure. It was free-wheeling and fantastical, crazily episodic — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight, Alberta Opera, Carlo Collodi, Edmonton theatre, Farren Timoteo, Jeff Unger, Pinocchio, Roxy Performance Series, theatre for young audiences
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Unlacing Shakespeare’s women: the Bard goes burlesque at the Capitol Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Think of them as the ultimate theatre buffs: reveals are their speciality. Send In The Girls Burlesque comes to the stage of Fort Edmonton Park’s vintage Capitol Theatre Friday and Saturday, in honour of Alberta Culture … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, burlesque, Capitol Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Ellen Chorley, Fort Edmonton Park, Send in the Girls Burlesque, Shakespeare, Shakespeare female characters
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The fine art of foolery: the return of Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Foolery, sir, doth walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.” – Twelfth Night III, i. Edmonton, we are about to have an outbreak — an eruption? an infiltration? invasion? effervescence? collision? conflagration? — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, bouffon, Christine Lesiak, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, physical theatre, Play The Fool Festival
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Once … upon a time: meet Ann Hodges, director of the cult film-turned-musical that launches the Citadel season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Once … upon a time there was a winsomely offbeat 2007 indie Irish film, about the unlikely friendship between a Dublin street musician and a Czech immigrant. It was made for a dime (well, $150,000), shot … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, musical theatre, Once
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The exhilaration of chaos: Teatro revives the screwball Skirts On Fire as their 2018 season finale
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a scene that might have been lifted direct from the Teatro La Quindicina archive, a playwright and a leading man were in a tiny Strathcona cocktail bar last week discussing the essence of screwball comedy. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, screwball comedy, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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Mrs. Shakespeare gets her voice back, in a graveyard: Shakespeare’s Will with Thou Art Here!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A woman dancing on a grave.” That’s the image that inspired the roving outdoor production of Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will opening Thursday in a cemetery near you, says director Andrew Ritchie. So decisively did that image … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Sudsing up for an improv marathon: a family reunion at Die-Nasty’s 26th annual Soap-A-Thon
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Festive, but ominous. That’s the buzz today: You, my friends, are going to a family reunion this weekend. Starting tonight at 7 p.m. the far-flung members of the Bun-Bun family, owners and operators of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Soap-A-Thon, Varscona Theatre
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The trouper, the angel, and the mantra: the show must go on!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a dramatic testimonial to theatre as a collaborative art form, in the grand odds-against “show must go on” tradition, it’s got to be the back story of The Great Whorehouse Fire of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta history, Andrea House, Edmonton Fringe Festival 2018, MAA & PAA Theatre, Northern Sabbatical Productions, Reiter's Syndrome, Sue Huff, Sweethearts of the 49th, The Soldier's Tale
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