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A week of many choices on Edmonton stages of every shape and size
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A crazy week in Edmonton theatre is underway. (So don’t go trying to land a stage from which to deliver your own innovative modern dance movement memoir; they’re all occupied.) •At the Citadel, the much postponed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Opera Nuova, RISER Edmonton, Theatre Network, U of A Studio Theatre
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Collecting souls: where’s the job satisfaction? After Faust, the opening show in RISER Edmonton’s 2023 series. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It sounds like an OK gig. And you can argue that aspirational clients, like Dr. Faustus, get what they deserve when they sign away their souls for unlimited knowledge, power, worldly pleasure, and the 24/7 services … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Invisible Practice, RISER Edmonton
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Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Ground Zero Productions, Invisible Practice, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Surprise! Finding yourself at Found 2022: the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Found 2022 you could find yourself … following a story into a fort in the river valley. You could find yourself in a hidden nook of Old Strathcona, in a park, in a garbage enclosure … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival 2022, Old Strathcona, Popcorn Galaxies, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Sexual assault, scorched earth, and the fire that burns: Smoke, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Smoke is both of the air and the earth. And so is Elena Belyea’s challenging and elusive play, getting its Edmonton premiere at Co*Lab in a Tiny Bear Jaws production with two casts. Smoke is … Continue reading
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Re:Construct, at RISER, is a celebration of self in trans-it. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Welcome!” declare the beaming go-for-the-gusto duo who greet us in Re:Construct. “You are SO SO SO … valid.” Valid! Hurray! Unless, of course, we’re not. Ah, there’s the rub: All good! Relax! “Do whatever it takes!” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton 2022
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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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‘Orchid, pause recording’: I Don’t Even Miss You, a Tiny Bear Jaws dance musical for a contactless world. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you think that the last two years have kicked the crap out of satire, think what they’ve done to speculative fiction. Or existential crises. With I Don’t Even Miss You, premiering in RISER Edmonton’s 2022 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A.I theatre, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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I Don’t Even Miss You: love and legacy in a new multi-disciplinary ‘musical’ from Tiny Bear Jaws
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I can never go back to the person I was in 2020,” says Elena Belyea. And the world can’t go back to its old self either. Which brings her to “the central question: What do you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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‘It makes us vibrate, makes us feel’: The Power of the Drum from the Cuban Movements Dance Academy. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s no coincidence that Afro-Cuban drumming doesn’t involve drumsticks. It’s hands-on, literally and metaphorically. The power of the drum, as the show of that name onstage at the Westbury Theatre tells us, is that it shares … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Afro-Cuban dance, Common Ground Arts Society, Cuban Movements Dance Academy, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, RISER Edmonton
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