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In the kingdom of high spirits: Fever Land, the live season finale at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How do you get to Fever Land? The kingdom where your temperature heats up, your spirit rises, your vivacity escalates, and that gray clammy feeling is vanquished? Try the theatre, live and in person. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Giselle, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, The Erlking, Varscona Theatre
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It’s a beautiful night in the neighbourhood: The Garneau Block at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was a long time coming. After 18 dark traumatic isolating months and the most terrible summer ever, a play about community, about what it means to live together in a neighbourhood and pull together — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belinda Cornish, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton neighbourhoods, Edmonton theatre, Garneau, The Garneau Block, Todd Babiak
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Sending in the clowns (online): Play The Fool Fest is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Clowns: it takes all kinds. And we have the festival to prove it. At Play the Fool, returning Thursday (online again) for a sixth annual edition, you’ll meet “the world’s first German Nihilist life coach,” for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, bouffon, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul, Fringe TV, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool Two-Minute Film Festival, Shannan Calcutt, Small Matters Theatre
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Jenny McKillop: meet the star of Teatro’s live in-person season finale Fever Land
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the live in-person grand finale to Teatro La Quindicina’s highly compressed summer season of filmed productions, we meet a shy, unassuming junior high Home Ec teacher who sings in a choir. In Winnipeg. In the … Continue reading
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Conjuring Patsy in concert, live at the Mayfield: A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home.” The singing invitation comes from Miss Virginia Patterson Hensley of Winchester, Virginia, whose early-career name change is part of the show to follow. She … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical bio-revues, Patsy Cline
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Together once more, on the street where you live: The Garneau Block at the Citadel. Meet playwright Belinda Cornish.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There was something quite magical,” says Belinda Cornish, “about having us all come together, to be a community together that one night…. It felt very special. And I felt lucky to be there.” She’s talking … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Belinda Cornish, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Garneau Block, Todd Babiak, Varscona Theatre
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A good night’s sleep and A Fit, Happy Life, Teatro’s third filmed production. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s what I do! It’s what I love!” declares a man in earnest defence of the job that is his chosen career and his avocation. Mike Brack (Mathew Hulshof) is an expert in the field of … Continue reading
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Capturing the Patsy Cline essence: Sara-Jeanne Hosie is back at the Mayfield
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sixteen years ago, an award-winning musical theatre triple threat from the West Coast got offered an unusually specific starring role. One that would involve surprising low notes and some yodelling. How’d you like to be our … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline, Edmonton theatre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Patsy Cline
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Towards a more inclusive theatre: Postmarginal Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At a moment in history when so many of our artistic assumptions are ready for their close-up, the intertwined questions of how theatre gets made, how it’s experienced — and by whom — are up for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 35//50 Initiative, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Modern Times Stage Company, Postmarginal Edmonton, Theatre Alberta, Walterdale Theatre
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And behind the door … a stranger. A Second Round of Seconds, Lost Lemoine part 2 at Teatro. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Anyone unalterably convinced that a life of celibacy is much to be preferred to a blind date with a stranger should probably avoid Lost Lemoine Part 2: A Second Round of Seconds at all costs. On … Continue reading
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