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A cultural inheritance, a quest, and a haunting: Barvinok launches a tour here
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The universal desire, the need, desire, to understand who you are, where you came from….” That’s what drew Ukrainian-Canadian playwright Lianna Makuch across the ocean to her ancestral homeland. And that quest was her creative inspiration, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian-Canadian theatre
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Facing the fall-out: A Doll’s House Part 2 launches the season at the Varscona. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The stage is dominated by a door, a giant door. The room has the outlines of wainscoting and six sealed windows — all bleached out, painted over, uninhabited. There’s no human clutter: a couple of chairs, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Varscona Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Knock knock who’s there? Nora’s back, A Doll’s House Part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “And it’s crucial there be a door. A very prominent door to the outside….” playwright stage directions, A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath It’s the door that Nora Helmer slammed as she walks out … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Moment Discovery, RBC Horizon Emerging Artist Program, Varscona Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Teatro Live! new season, new calendar, new name
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ya turn 40, ya make changes…. Teatro La Quindicina goes into its new decade with a newly streamlined moniker (with a built-in exclamation point), a new logo, a new and Fringe-less yearly calendar, and an expanding … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro Live!, Varscona Theatre
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The Fringe, and fringers, are back! The curtain comes down tonight
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If Fringe director Murray Utas is looking a little dazed — a rarefied combo of surprise, delight, and fatigue — who can blame him? It’s the last day of Destination Fringe, the 41st annual edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
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A last weekend at the Fringe: how did THAT happen? See some shows!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How on earth did it happen? Amazingly, it’s the final weekend of Destination Fringe. So much theatre, so little time. True, the Fringe has been unfailing creative, non-stop, about not vanishing during The Great Pause. But … Continue reading
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Gathering dreams: Dreamers Cantata, a new revue from the Plain Janes. A Fringe review
Dreamer’s Cantata – A New Revue (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What would we do without the Plain Janes? In addition to their excavations in the corners of the musical theatre repertoire where the forgotten or neglected, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Plain Jane Theatre Company
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Insights honed to a knife edge: Horseface, a Fringe review
Horseface (Stage 14, La Cité Auditorium) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the heart of this whip-cracking solo show is a smile — wide, tight-lipped, ambiguously ulterior. This is what seething looks like when it’s smiling. In this funny sharp-eyed solo … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, PKF Productions
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And put your hands together for … Jesus Teaches Us Things, a Fringe review
Jesus Teaches Us Things (Stage 16, Sue Paterson Theatre, Campus Saint Jean) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve got to hand it to Jesus. He’s more famous for his exits, right? (well, exit singular really). But the guy really knows how … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Dammitammy Productions, Edmonton Fringe 2022, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival
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