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Feel your ribs vibrate: Carbon Movements at SOUND OFF, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To say that I’ve never seen anything remotely like Carbon Movements doesn’t really tell you anything about the fascinating theatre/dance performance/experience that opened the 7th annual SOUND OFF festival of deaf theatre Tuesday night. It’s out-of-body, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brian Webb Dance Company, dance theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance, Mile Zero Dance, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, The Invisible Practice, VibroFusionLab
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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
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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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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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Deaf, and an expert in the absurdities of the world: Chris Dodd’s Deafy at the Citadel, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Deafy, currently running in the Citadel’s Rice Theatre, we meet a man with a fine-tuned sense of the absurdities of the world. In his wry way he’s an expert in negotiating obstacles both large and … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Negotiating a route through the Deaf and hearing worlds: Chris Dodd’s Deafy, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The production that opens tonight at the Citadel is in its own special way a groundbreaker. For the first time in its 58-season history a play by a Deaf playwright will occupy a stage at the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, U of A drama department
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The Deaf world, from the inside out: Deafy, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Deafy (Backstage Theatre) Then character we meet in Deafy is droll, wry, a master of the eye roll/shrug combo, a guy who’s in touch with the absurdities of his world. Nathan Jesper is Deaf. And his … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Dodd, deaf theatre, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Deafy at the Fringe: changing the landscape for Deaf theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was one of those theatre collaborations that start, like so many others, at a closing night party in the wee hours (after copious drinks). And like so many set in Edmonton, it included the fateful … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Dodd, deaf theatre, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival
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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading
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Tagged #NotYourInspiration, 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, CRIPSiE, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Good Women Dance Collective, Mile Zero Dance, Nextfest, Punctuate! Theatre, SOUND OFF Festival, Tamarra Lessard, The National Transformations Project, The Transformers
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SOUND OFF gathers Deaf artists from across the country and beyond for its online 2021 edition
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In an age of probing questions about inclusivity in theatre, here’s a model of accessibility — forged in the fire of experience, years of it, of being marginalized, and finding alternate pathways to communicating. SOUND OFF, Canada’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chris Dodd, Deaf Antlers Improv, Deaf Spirit Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Follow the Signs Theatre, Outside The March, Playwrights Canada Press, Rapid Fire Theatre, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, SummerWorks, The Two Natashas
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Romance into tragedy: the dark, violent, original new hearing-deaf Tempest at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It never stops raining in the version of The Tempest that’s now lashing and splashing and skidding across the Citadel mainstage. As the Fool in Twelfth Night sings (borrowed by this wettest of Tempests for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ASL interpretation, Citadel Theatre, deaf theatre, Edmonton theatre, Josette Bushell-Mingo, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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