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How to feel the breeze at Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a town that needed a chinook … an E-town story. And yes, we’re having one. The Chinook Series, which opens tonight, is a resource-pooling experience between arts groups with a view to … Continue reading
The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, bharata natyam, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, Chinook Series, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Good Women Dance Collective, Hong Kong Exile, Mile Zero Dance, Rubaboo Arts Festival, Sinergia, Sound Off, Third Rail Project, Workshop West
And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Escape Room theatre adventure puzzle: The Snow Queen is Azimuth’s latest collaboration
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In The Snow Queen, a strange and haunting fairy tale by the 19th century Danish master Hans Christian Andersen, a magic troll mirror distorts everything it reflects. It shatters, scattering icy splinters across the world. Anyone … Continue reading
The sense of connection: Paradise at the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 1992, Patti Flather’s father, a family doctor, was murdered outside his North Vancouver home — shot by a former patient with an undiagnosed mental illness. Reflections on that traumatizing event eventually found their way into … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Gwaandak Theatre, MT Space, Patti Flather
Feel the breeze: Chinook blows through with cutting-edge live theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook: finally, the moment in the deep midwinter when “cutting edge” doesn’t refer to the wind chill factor. Edmonton’s international multidisciplinary performance series blows through the winter theatre season again starting tonight. For this third annual … Continue reading
The sounds of revolution: The Listening Room, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If there ever was a piece of theatre that owed star billing to the sound designer, it’s Cardiac Theatre’s premiere production of The Listening Room, by Calgary-based Michaela Jefferey. Everything about the premise depends on sound: … Continue reading
As the crow flies: Nicole Moeller’s new play gets under your skin at Azimuth
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the first moments of The Preacher, The Princess, And A Crow, a man bursts headlong into a tower room above a street. He triple-locks the door behind him. Jasper is a man under siege. But … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12tnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Murray Utas, Nicole Moeller
Exit, pursued by a crow: Nicole Moeller’s new play asks tough questions
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Jasper has to save the princess.” When Nicole Moeller follows the thread of her new play back back back to its birthplace, that’s the line she heard in her head. Intriguing, yes, and not just because … Continue reading
