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Anahita’s Republic: a thriller takes us into the world of Iran and the struggle for women’s rights
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thriller that gets its Alberta premiere Friday at the Backstage Theatre takes us to a tense world where “freedom” reverberates at a frequency very different from our own. The disparity between its application to men … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 12thnight.cah, AuTash Productions, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Iranian theatre, Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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SOUND OFF, the groundbreaking Deaf theatre fest, dances back for a seventh annual edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Across the country, and the continent, there isn’t anything quite like the groundbreaker of a festival, born in this fair theatre town, that’s back for a seventh annual edition Tuesday. SOUND OFF, Canada’s unique and influential … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Dance Novella, deaf theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, La Cité francophone, Mile Zero Dance, Rapid Fire Theatre, roots2reach, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, Theatresports, VibraFusion Lab, Zuppa Theatre Co.
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A coming-of-age thriller: Freaky Green Eyes at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Freaky Green Eyes is a girl poised on a diving board, about to take the plunge. In Emma Houghton’s solo show, an artful stage adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 powerfully dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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From a big bad dangerous world, to us: Evandalism, a surprising original at Fringe Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It wasn’t a promising start to a life: “a little Mexican Indian whose mom and dad didn’t want him.” The guy who stands before us, tattooed and smiling in front of a big magic board, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Bear Grease, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre
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Trying to ‘do gender right’ through the trans lens: Re:Construct, at RISER
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Playwright Even Gilchrist was in full producer mode at home one morning last week, making a cake for his new play. The play? Re:Construct, premiering Wednesday at the Backstage Theatre in RISER Edmonton’s 2022 series. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton
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An inheritance in stories: ren & the wake, a new Catch the Keys musical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a funny thing, don’t you find, the way memory works. How the past gets unearthed from its subterranean lair in detached moments, a snippet of melody, a smell, the sound of a laugh, a scribble … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lindsey Walker
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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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