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‘It’s no o’clock’: Bloomsday at Shadow Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A rosy glow suffuses the Varscona stage (designer: Even Gilchrist): it’s either dawn or dusk, nearly day or nearly night, in a Dublin that’s both real and literary. And the sound (designer: Dave Clarke) is a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bloomsday, Edmonton theatre, James Joyce, Shadow Theatre, Steven Dietz
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‘Orchid, pause recording’: I Don’t Even Miss You, a Tiny Bear Jaws dance musical for a contactless world. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you think that the last two years have kicked the crap out of satire, think what they’ve done to speculative fiction. Or existential crises. With I Don’t Even Miss You, premiering in RISER Edmonton’s 2022 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A.I theatre, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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An inheritance in stories: ren & the wake, a new Catch the Keys musical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a funny thing, don’t you find, the way memory works. How the past gets unearthed from its subterranean lair in detached moments, a snippet of melody, a smell, the sound of a laugh, a scribble … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lindsey Walker
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You can’t not discuss this one: As You Like It, A Radical Retelling is the first play at the New Roxy, a (very) short review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Thus we may see … how the world wags.” — William Shakespeare, As You Like It, II, vii It’s bold. It’s ballsy, a genuinely provocative theatre experiment. And — here’s a 100 per cent guarantee — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cliff Cardinal, Crow's Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Two-Headed/ Half-Hearted: the twinned urge to be joined and apart in Northern Light Theatre’s new musical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There they sit, motionless under a rosy moon, a two-headed prairie oracle atop a body wrapped in mystery. They’re the centrepiece of an eerie altar: a bank of ghostly corn stalks, a gothic farmhouse facade, an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, conjoined twins, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Kaeley Jade Wiebe, Northern Light Theatre, Rebecca Sadowski, Trevor Schmidt
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Nostalgia in gold lamé: Mamma Mia! at the Mayfield, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Mamma Mia! Effect, in a nutshell. Read the title, and a whole archive of hits instantly catapults into the centre of your mind as if they’d never left. And they lodge there for at least … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ABBA, Edmonton theatre, Mamma Mia!, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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‘It makes us vibrate, makes us feel’: The Power of the Drum from the Cuban Movements Dance Academy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s no coincidence that Afro-Cuban drumming doesn’t involve drumsticks. It’s hands-on, literally and metaphorically. The power of the drum, as the show of that name onstage at the Westbury Theatre tells us, is that it shares … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Afro-Cuban dance, Common Ground Arts Society, Cuban Movements Dance Academy, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER Edmonton
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Reading the signs: The Herd premieres at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a stunning screen — glowing, translucent, undulating like the prairies, with a graceful open-work lattice (Indigenous Tiffany?). In The Herd the boundary between the present and the past, this world and other … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre, National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre, Persephone Theatre, Tarragon Theatre
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Jane Eyre lives in a haunted world: Erin Shields’ new adaptation at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Jane Eyre, currently premiering on the Citadel’s Maclab stage through Sunday, is a solitary little girl reading in a pool of light, enclosed in space by blank window frames. The orphan heroine … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Charlotte Brontë, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Jane Eyre, theatrical adaptations
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A comedy set in Kelowna? Teatro La Quindicina turns 40 with Caribbean Muskrat, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s telling that the oddball 2004 comedy launching Teatro La Quindicina’s return-to-live 40th anniversary season seems to wriggle out of every known category of their specialty. I refer of course to comedy. Teatro, after all, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2021-2022 season, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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