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Remembering the season in Edmonton theatre, highlights part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Goblin:Macbeth, the brilliant Spontaneous Theatre production that came to the Citadel’s Highwire Series this season, one of the goblin stars wonders aloud what the strange human ritual called theatre is actually for, anyhow. And he … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, RISER Edmonton
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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival, Found Festival, RISER Edmonton, SkirtsaFire Festival, Theatre Yes, Why Not Theatre
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War as the human constant through time: After The Trojan Women, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The centrepiece of the stage is a gory altarpiece that looks a red tree upended, or maybe a giant artery wrenched out by its roots. Alison Yanota’s striking design for After The Trojan Women cuts to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Greek tragedy
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‘A story lives forever’: Meet Amena Shehab, whose new epic play After The Trojan Women premieres at Common Ground
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a certain inevitability that theatre artist Amena Shehab would find inspiration from Greek tragedy in creating (with Joanna Blundell) her first and “very personal” play. After The Trojan Women premieres Saturday at the Backstage … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Greek theatre
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Intermission’s over, take your seats: Act II of the theatre season is about to begin (prospects to intrigue you).
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Wait…. There’s more. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin. And rehearsals are underway all over town. Goblin: Macbeth, a Spontaneous Theatre Creation, starts previews next week in the Citadel’s Highwire Series. How … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, NUOVa Vocal Arts, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Spontaneous Theatre Creation, Teatro Live!, Theatre Yes, U of A drama department, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2024: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In a chaotic, incoherent year in the world, live theatre, which has itself been under every kind of duress in 2024, stepped up to offer us other perspectives, other visions, characters on personal quests for meaning, … Continue reading
Reimagining history in a cautionary tale: Civil Blood: A Treaty Story, a Thou Art Here epic at the Fort
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began with a vision of an Indigenous/settler Romeo and Juliet, star-cross’d lovers reaching across the colonial divide. And gradually a bigger, richer, more complex story — poised at an historically critical juncture in our collective … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Banff Centre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival, Thou Art Here Theatre
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A visceral reverb that stays with you: Brick Shithouse at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s stayed with me, the way dangerous theatre does. So I wanted to tell you about Brick Shithouse. I was lucky to catch the last performance of the fenceless theatre production that sold out its whole run … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2024, Tesserae Factory
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Classic comedy: a summertime weekend in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, Edmonton, look what’s waiting for you onstage this weekend. Something about summer inspires our theatre artists to tangle with the classics, reimagine them, put them in new shapes: A classic playwright (you guessed, Shakespeare), in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2024, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Teatro Live!, Tesserae Factor, Theatre Prospero, Thousand Faces Festival, Walterdale Theatre
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