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Breaking out of our cages: Night from Major Matt Mason in Rundle Park. A review..
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rundle Park on a cloudy night is an eerie place. A network of cement roads and parking lots, all abandoned. They seem to be holding at bay the woods, the dark tangle of trees, the taller … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Calgary theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Major Matt Mason Collective, Rundle Park
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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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The fun of real live theatre (socially distanced, of course): Chamber Obscura at the Found Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Special occasion: tonight was the night I got to see real live people in real live theatre. It felt so … radical. So cool. So Zoom-defiant. The play is Chamber Obscura, a 15-minute gothic folk thriller, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2020, Le Fixe Theatre
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Finding a new way at Found, the festival of unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If ever there was a moment in history when artists and audiences have had to find each other in new, experimental, reimagined ways, this has got to be it, my stir-crazy friends. And, hey, Edmonton has … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Dwennimmen, Edmonton arts, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Le Fixe Theatre, Story City
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Did you hear about the party? A world of surveillance in Bevin Dooley’s In Camera at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shhhh. This weekend in Old Strathcona you may find yourself doing something subversive, illegal, and quite possibly dangerous. No, not jaywalking, my friends (or plotting against the damn Edmonton parking app). You’ll be in a one-bedroom … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2019, immersive theatre, site-specific theatre
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Finding yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Finding art, and artists, in places you never expected to run into them: hey, Edmonton has a festival for that. With the return of the Found Festival Thursday, for an eight annual weekend of surprising … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, site-specific theatre
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Found Festival 2018: surprising finds, unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Found, the festival that’s all about the find — art and artists in places you never expected to run into them — is back this weekend in Old Strathcona for a seventh annual edition. It’s all about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Dart, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, found space art, site-specific theatre
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A festive spirit prevails in E-Town tonight: 2 festivals and a screwball comedy set to open
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!” And then let up later, for heaven’s sake! It’s opening night this very evening for not one but two of Edmonton’s summer arts festivals. AND Teatro La Quindicina’s new screwball … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Musical Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Foote in the Door Productions, Found Festival, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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