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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking.… The world has been so chaotic and unpredictable this past year that you’d have to be crazy to ink in a calendar of upcoming theatre events. But one thing … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Roxy Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Canada as a work-in-progress: All That Binds Us at Azimuth Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight There has likely never been a more all-inclusive welcome to a piece of theatre than the one we get from Kit (Sheldon Elter), our “guide of sorts,” in the opening moments of All That Binds Us. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Jenny Rodgers, Reneltta Arluk
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All That Binds Us: a new Azimuth Theatre creation ponders connection in a fragmented world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a thought with special reverb in a world of fragmentation, enforced distance, separation, isolation: “People don’t want perfection; they want connection,” declares Reneltta Arluk, director of All That Binds Us, premiering Friday in a live … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Banff Centre, Chromatic Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Reneltta Arluk, Westbury Theatre
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What do you know now that you didn’t know on March 12? 12thnight asked theatre artists
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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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, The Maggie Tree, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Making space for a new generation of arts leaders: Vanessa Sabourin and Kristi Hansen walk the walk at Azimuth
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a moment in the life of the performing arts when the past didn’t seem to provide an automatic template for the future, this might be it. Change is in the air (and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, The Maggie Tree
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Playing the game: culturecapital, that is, the custom-made trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two brainy Vancouver-based performance artists with an appetite for games have custom-made one for us — an original collectible trading card game about the performing arts industry in Alberta. Welcome to culturecapital, by the team of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre
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“It’s what happens when you say Yes!” Feel the breeze at the 2020 Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook “is what happens when you say Yes!” laughs Vanessa Sabourin. She’s talking about the cutting-edge curated performance series that skips as lightly across artistic disciplines as the surprising winter breeze with the built-in warming trend. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Black Arts Matter, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, Stump Kitchen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Shakespeare gets a Cree cosmology re-fit: Pawâkan Macbeth arrives for Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feel the breeze. Chinook, the resource-sharing multi-disciplinary series devoted to melting our preconceptions and expanding our experience of live performance and creation, is at hand. It’s a measure of creative vision (and chutzpah) that the 2020 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival
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