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‘That piano arrived in my life for a reason’: Metronome, a new Darrin Hagen solo show premieres at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Have you ever tried something new, and instantly thought ‘O! I feel like I’ve been doing this my whole life?’” That’s how Darrin Hagen remembers the exact day when everything changed for the small-town Alberta trailer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, The Edmonton Queen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Sending in the clowns (online): Play The Fool Fest is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Clowns: it takes all kinds. And we have the festival to prove it. At Play the Fool, returning Thursday (online again) for a sixth annual edition, you’ll meet “the world’s first German Nihilist life coach,” for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, bouffon, clown theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul, Fringe TV, Play The Fool Festival, Play The Fool Two-Minute Film Festival, Shannan Calcutt, Small Matters Theatre
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The call of the wild: Night is live ‘drive-by’ theatre from Major Matt Mason
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Dusk is shading into dark, the break-out time. And the wilderness is encroaching. The solo play that opens late twilight Thursday in Rundle Park invites us into the mind of a person who feels themself straining … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Calgary theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Major Matt Mason Collective, Punctuate! Theatre, Rundle Park
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Making indie theatre just got less lonely: RISER goes national and comes to Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Even at the best of times (which I think we can all agree this is not) It’s hard, high-risk work producing indie theatre. Bright creative innovative ideas that find their natural habitat in independent theatre arrive … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Backstage Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER, Why Not Theatre
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Locked out by a union? Whaaaat? Allan Morgan’s one-man show I Walked The Line comes to Chinook Series 2020
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I could not believe it! I could not get my head around it!” declares Allan Morgan. The veteran Vancouver-based actor, whose conversation rolls in exclamation points, is known to Edmonton audiences since he was the touring … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Allan Morgan, Backstage Theatre, Chinook Series 2020, Edmonton theatre, 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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In hot pursuit of justice: The Ballad of Peachtree Rose. A review of Workshop West’s season-opener
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Welcome to the team!” says a mysterious executive (Laura Raboud), to the street kid she’s just recruited. “I really believe in you.” Team spirit: It’s music to the ears of Peach (Alexandra Dawkins), who ricochets through … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nicole Moeller, thrillers, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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An outbreak of clowns: Play The Fool, E-Town’s “festival of clown and physical comedy” is back
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown….” — Cole Porter “It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.” — Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act V, scene i This theatre town … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, bouffons, clowning, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool
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