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A “puzzle box”: Broken Toys Theatre plays with Pinter’s Betrayal
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Just like old times,” says one character to another in the first scene of Betrayal. Funny how four simple words can evoke a whole world of memory and feeling. But then, this is Harold Pinter, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Previews
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ATB Financial Arts Barns, Betrayal, Broken Toys Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Harold Pinter, indie theatre
A Man Draws A Bird “because he wants to fly”: theatre, music, and Taiko drumming in a new Booming Tree show
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As in so many life-changers, there was a moment when it all could have been different. And that was the moment — on one of those lingering Edmonton summer evenings in 2012 — that Greg Shimizu … Continue reading →
“Thicker than water and stronger than bone”: twin performances in Blood: A Scientific Romance at The Maggie Tree. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At the beating heart of Meg Braem’s intricate Blood: A Scientific Romance are twin sisters whose mysterious bond is an elixir of life. Beyond empathy, beyond heredity, beyond biology, Angelique and Poubelle seem to be joined at … Continue reading →
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ATB Financial Arts Barns, Brenley Charkow, Edmonton theatre, Meg Braem, The Backstage Theatre, The Maggie Tree
The giant Fringe approaches: be very excited. Tickets go on sale at noon today
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Tickets go on sale at noon today for Fringe ‘O’ Saurus Rex, the outsized 228-show 37th annual edition of our summer theatre extravaganza, the continent’s first and still biggest fringe festival (Aug; 16 to 26). And … Continue reading →
Planting seeds for kids theatre: the 17th annual Sprouts Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For 17 springs now, Concrete Theatre has planted new plays at their annual Sprouts Festival — and watered them for future seasons. The idea from the start was to stimulate growth in the Canadian theatre repertoire … Continue reading →
Defying the laws of gravity: Gravity, the cabaret of art and politics, is back Monday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s happened to the laws of gravity when the world seems upside down? Grave? SNAFU, now officially a verb, has gone TARFUN. Yes, Things Are Really Fucked Up Now. And Monday night at the Westbury Theatre, … Continue reading →
Gender, sexuality, identity: Elena Belyea’s Cleave asks questions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Elena Belyea thinks about the punchy title of her new play with a certain unmistakeable satisfaction. Cleave, after all, has two completely opposite meanings: to pull together and to wrench apart. Families, those repositories of contradictory … Continue reading →
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ATB Financial Arts Barns, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Tiny Bear Jaws
A legendary clown guru returns to the stage … in a box: Over Her Dead Body at Fringe Theatre Adventures
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’ve been spending a lot of time in a coffin lately,” says Jan Henderson cheerfully. “Talk about rubbing your nose in mortality.” As a way to celebrate a return to the stage after 25 years, the … Continue reading →
Wakey Wakey! Fringe tickets go on sale today at noon!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I have had a most rare dream….” –Bottom the stagestruck weaver, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tickets go on sale at noon today for A Midsummer Night’s Fringe, the 36th annual edition of our summer theatre … Continue reading →
Posted in Fringe 2017
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Tagged ATB Financial Arts Barns, Edmonton Fringe Festival, fringe festivals, La Cité francophone
