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Thoughts on the Plain Janes’ Scenes From The Sidewalk the sequel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You have to hand it to the catastrophe that is the pandemic: it’s impossible now to take for granted the “live” in live theatre. “Going out to the theatre,” a phrase to be tossed off expectantly … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Musical Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University, The Plain Jane Theatre Company, Varscona Theatre
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Breaking out of our cages: Night from Major Matt Mason in Rundle Park. A review..
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rundle Park on a cloudy night is an eerie place. A network of cement roads and parking lots, all abandoned. They seem to be holding at bay the woods, the dark tangle of trees, the taller … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Major Matt Mason Collective, Rundle Park
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Through the looking glass: The Ugly Duchess, streaming at Northern Light Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the start of The Ugly Duchess, a woman seen from the back walks away from us to approach an elaborate golden altar constructed of mirrors. When you look in the mirror, who looks back? Trevor … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre Northern Light Theatre, Janet Munsil, Trevor Schmidt
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‘Questions that make the house shake with silence’: Something Unspoken streamed at Northern Light. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre’s exquisite little streamed version of Something Unspoken, a rarely produced Tennessee Williams’ one-act from the ‘50s, is a bit like a whisper in a bubble. Breathe too hard and it will vanish. In … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Tennessee Williams, Varscona Theatre
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Adventures in pandemic theatre: a mystery box, a romantic comedy, a (very) short film fest, and more
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Theatre’s strange, circuitous and sometimes wonderful route through the pandemic, chapter umpteen. Let me tell you about my week. •For three days the mystery box sat on the dining room table, wrapped in silver. Light, but … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Factory Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Matthew MacKenzie, Musical Theatreworks, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Got a couple of minutes? catch a film at the Play The Fool International Short (very short) Film Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Psst.… Wanna have fun, fast, on a blowy pandemic Sunday? I went to an international film festival this morning. And I saw all 12 jury selections, in their entirety, before my second coffee. Surely the world’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool International Short Film Festival
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An ancient vision, a new cosmology: Makram Ayache’s The Hooves Belonged To The Deer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A year of dizzying optics. The walls have both closed in on us — an audience of one wrapped in our own pandemic carapaces in front of our own personal screens — and they’ve blown wide … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Makram Ayache, Peter Hinton, The Alberta Queer Calendar Project, theatre podcasts
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Real people reporting from the real world: COVID Collections, a short film online at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As the pandemic grinds on, don’t you find it becomes harder and harder to imagine watching the inevitable outbreak of solo confessional COVID-inspired monologue shows in our collective future? You can conjure them in your mind’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Finding your own story: Dana Wylie’s Makings of a Voice at SkirtsAfire
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m right here with you right now,” says Dana Wylie, looking intently right into our eyes at the outset of Makings of a Voice. Against the probabilities and across the screen (the defining demarcation of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival
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Fun with Greeks: Orestes, “a live online mythic adventure” from Tarragon Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Home Sweet Homepage.” In a new and witty Orestes, premiering in a livestream production by Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, the House of Atreus, world’s most famous dysfunctional family is online with you (hey, just like your own … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Greek theatre, House of Atreus, Orestes, Richard Rose, Tarragon Theatre, Toronto theatre
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