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An Exceptional Night In With Lucy Darling: get Zoomed on magic and mixology
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For an awful moment, says Lucy Darling brightly, “I thought this was one of those terrible juice box events!” No fear, my (socially distanced) friends. When you’re a guest at L.D.’s magic comedy show An Exceptional … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Carisa Hendrix, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, fire eating, Lucy Darling, magic shows
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Cool breath in, warm breath out: Catalyst’s ‘until the next breath’ in the great outdoors
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca From the River Road at dusk, you catch a glimpse of something mysterious through the trees of Victoria Park. Rounded huts — hives? a village perhaps? — glowing from within, and strung with twinkling lights. We’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grand Acts of Theatre, National Arts Centre, outdoor theatre
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Canada as a work-in-progress: All That Binds Us at Azimuth Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight There has likely never been a more all-inclusive welcome to a piece of theatre than the one we get from Kit (Sheldon Elter), our “guide of sorts,” in the opening moments of All That Binds Us. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Jenny Rodgers, Reneltta Arluk
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Off the cuff and on the spot: Gordon’s Big Bald Head makes (up) a movie
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, tonight I was in the virtual audience at the Grindstone, i.e. the invisible sweatpants brigade online at home. And I was watching an amazingly dexterous improv duo onstage do, off the cuff, something that is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre and Bistro, improv comedy, Mark Meer, Ron Pederson
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Hockey night in Edmonton: Playing With Fire re-opens the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca With the production that reopened the Mayfield Dinner theatre for real-live audiences this week (for a six-week run), hockey doesn’t just pirouette around theatre. No, there’s a bone-rattling full bodycheck into the boards. And there are … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary Flames, Edmonton theatre, hockey plays, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Theo Fleury
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And back to the live! a horizon-expanding experiment at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca On Friday March 13 I went to the theatre — the Varscona, to see Shadow Theatre’s production of Heisenberg, starring Amber Borotsik and Glenn Nelson. I haven’t stepped into a theatre since. Until Saturday night. Which … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Horizon Lab
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Live theatre: has it found a footing on a platform instead of a stage in Zoom-laden times?
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A lifetime ago (March 25, 2020 to be precise), Malachite Theatre’s resourceful artistic director Benjamin Blyth explained to me that the company had borrowed an interactive online platform from the business world for a new venture. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoris Productions, Citadel Theatre, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Gender? I Hardly Know You, Girl Brain, Hit & Myth, Le Fixe Theatre, Lodestar Theatre, Malachite Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, RSC, Shakespeare By The Bow, Stratford Festival, Theatre Calgary, Zoom theatre
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The spirit of mirth, brought to you live: Lodestar Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I have had a most rare vision,” says Bottom, a stage-struck weaver with boundless enthusiasm for theatrical pursuits, late in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I had one of those, too. Friday night I dreamed I found … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edmonton theatre, Lodestar Theatre, Shakespeare comedy
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The fun of real live theatre (socially distanced, of course): Chamber Obscura at the Found Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Special occasion: tonight was the night I got to see real live people in real live theatre. It felt so … radical. So cool. So Zoom-defiant. The play is Chamber Obscura, a 15-minute gothic folk thriller, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2020, Le Fixe Theatre
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