Tag Archives: Amoris Projects

The dark pathways to coming-of-age: Boy Trouble at Fringe Theatre, a review

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre is dim, lit with a barrage of come-hither text messages: “send a vid”, “wyd”, “join me and a couple buds”, “your cute”, “no pic no chat” “my truck?”. When the lights come up, you … Continue reading →

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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The teenage characters we meet in Boy Trouble are growing up the hard way: queer and on the Prairies. Coming-of-age, the universal struggle for identity, is harder times 100 when you’re figuring out your sexuality for … Continue reading →

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New faces in theatre: meet theatre creator/ designer Even Gilchrist

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Liz Nicholls

They’re young, adaptable, and creative. And as theatre returns in this late-pandemic grind, and the doors open to live audiences, we’ll be seeing the work of these theatre artists light up, and transform, the scene here, on- and backstage. You’ll … Continue reading →

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2020: the strange year in Edmonton theatre (what just happened here? part 2)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020 was the year that a beaming singer arrived on the Varscona stage, draped herself in a chair centrestage to deliver a torchy number. And the host (Andrew MacDonald-Smith) calmly strode over and threw a sheet … Continue reading →

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What do you know now that you didn’t know on March 12? 12thnight asked theatre artists

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s been a learning curve.” Once more, with feeling. Since March I’ve heard the line from theatre artists too many times to count. And it’s been delivered in every intonation and cadence: exasperation (sardonic or direct), … Continue reading →

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“Where are you?” Tracks, an online experiment, takes us home with the cast.

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A preamble to Tracks, the online theatre that’s happening this week on your own screen…. Ever since going out to theatre, my way of life for forever, abruptly ended a thousand years ago (or 10 weeks, … Continue reading →

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Tracks: choose your route in an online theatre adventure from Amoris Projects

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started out as an ambulatory theatre adventure. Tracks let its audiences loose to wander in an unexpected assortment of rooms and spaces — a theatre box office, dressing rooms, bathrooms, the playwright’s car — to … Continue reading →

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