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Feel your ribs vibrate: Carbon Movements at SOUND OFF, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To say that I’ve never seen anything remotely like Carbon Movements doesn’t really tell you anything about the fascinating theatre/dance performance/experience that opened the 7th annual SOUND OFF festival of deaf theatre Tuesday night. It’s out-of-body, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brian Webb Dance Company, dance theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, Mile Zero Dance, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, VibroFusionLab
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How the West was won: Gender? I Hardly Know Them at Expanse Fest, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As their own song goes (you’ll have to imagine the ukulele accompaniment and the cheery tone), “Alberta’s tough for prairie queers.” But somehow, amazingly, they haven’t let this place, harsh, marginalizing, and right-sliding as it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws
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The dizzying optic of All The Little Animals I Have Eaten, a new Karen Hines satire at Shadow. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You won’t have seen anything quite like All The Small Animals I Have Eaten, the play that’s now running in the Shadow Theatre season. And because it’s by Karen Hines, a brilliant original of a satirist, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, High Performance Rodeo, Karen Hines, One Yellow Rabbit, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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The screwball elixir: high spirits and rom-com gold. Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Dust off the Regency, and what will you find? Fun fun fun, my friends. It is a measure of the comic high spirits of the version of Pride and Prejudice currently cavorting its way up, down, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jane Austen, Maclab Theatre, Pride and Prejudice
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‘I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy’. Joni Mitchell: Songs of a Prairie Girl at Theatre Network, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m not a weeper, I’m a snarler,” Joni Mitchell in old age tells us in the “theatrical collage” in her honour at Theatre Network. “I put the weeping in the songs…. I sing my sorrow, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Joni Mitchell, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network, Wild Side Productions
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From the mean streets of New Jersey, a jukebox musical with two dozen hits and a real story. Jersey Boys at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The history of the jukebox musical is riddled with synthetic duds (like robbing a cash machine, and finding Monopoly money). The stand-outs that rise above are few and far between. Jersey Boys is one. Judging by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway hits, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jersey Boys, The Four Seasons
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A knock-out production of The Royale at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s got a powerful, bruising story to tell, lifted from early 20th century history, where boxing, celebrity and racial hatred in America deliver a maximum sucker punch. But it’s the theatrical right hook on which that … Continue reading
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Tagged boxing history, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jack John, Jack Johnson
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Now we know what we’ve been missing: fun. Ronnie Burkett’s Daisy Theatre is back at Theatre Network with Little Willy
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those nights out in the theatre that make you know what you’ve been missing. Fun. Surprise. A feeling you’d have to call wonder — when you wake up the next morning and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Ronnie Burkett, Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes, The Daisy Theatre, the F!*#@$G Festival, Theatre Network
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The feel-anxious comedy of First Date, at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Are you ever gonna find The One?” wonders the rousing opening number of First Date, the funny, sweetly unassuming little romantic comedy musical that opened Friday at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre. A chorus tots up rather … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Broadway musicals, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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Collecting souls: where’s the job satisfaction? After Faust, the opening show in RISER Edmonton’s 2023 series. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like an OK gig. And you can argue that aspirational clients, like Dr. Faustus, get what they deserve when they sign away their souls for unlimited knowledge, power, worldly pleasure, and the 24/7 services … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Invisible Practice, RISER Edmonton
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