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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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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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The Look, from Northern Light: “for the many women you are.” A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not enough to have the look, the former face of Estelle Cosmetics tells her audience of trainees, emphatically, near the outset of The Look. “You have to live the look.” Which is exactly what Marilyn … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, streaming theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Mary’s Wedding: inside Mary’s dream in a new Métis version of the classic, streaming from the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It is no surprise that the land acknowledgment at the outset of Mary’s Wedding, delivered by one of its characters, has a particular resonance in the Citadel production that opened its digital streaming run Dec. 22 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mary's Wedding, Stephen Massicotte, Tai Amy Grauman, Todd Houseman
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‘Light during the longest nights’: the Citadel’s film adaptation of A Christmas Carol. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Light!” declares the twinkly old man at a piano on the stage of a big dark empty theatre. “Light during the longest nights.” It’s what every ghost wants, he says. And he’s got the ghost story … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Christmas classics, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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