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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
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
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
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
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Chinook Series, culturecapital, Edmonton theatre
“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
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
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival
It’s show time in Edmonton theatre: what to not miss this season on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That was what had been missing from his life all these years. His career, his city, this bonehead province. Mythic Power.” — The Garneau Block. In Todd Babiak’s wry and funny novel The Garneau Block, reborn … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 2019-2020 theatre season, Azimuth Theatre, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Impossible Mongoose, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Todd Babiak, Varscona Theatre Ensemble, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
“If I’m honest…”: 19 Weeks steps up to the wall of silence. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet up close in 19 Weeks, folding laundry in a toy-strewn room, says “if I’m honest…” and “being honest …” and “in all honesty …” a lot. And then she looks right at … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, late-term pregnancy, Northern Light Theatre, Vanessa Sabourin
19 Weeks: “It’s not something anybody talks about.” Emily Steel’s story of a harrowing real-life decision, her own
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “One of the things that made it so hard was that you feel completely isolated — because it’s not something anyone talks about. I had no reference points. I had nobody to talk to, nobody who’d … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Adelaide Fringe, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre
