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‘A post-pandemic brain scrubber’: what to see at Destination Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your Destination is on the right (also on the left and straight ahead). And this late-pandemic world seems … possible and ready to be lively. Yes, the Fringe is back, starting Thursday, in the town where … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Fringe 2022, Previews
Tagged Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre, Guys in Disguise, Rapid Fire Theatre, RibbitRePublic, SNAF, Straight Edge Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina
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Get down and festive, at an Edmonton festival this week
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a festive week in Edmonton live entertainment. The moment, both historically and seasonally, is at hand for you to venture forth and join in. It’s a choose-your-festival week; sample widely: the Found Festival, the New … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2022, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Grindstone Comedy Festival, New Mythic Works Series, Teatro La Quindicina, Thousand Faces Festival, Walterdale 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
Posted in Previews
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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Under the big top: after two years Freewill Shakespeare Festival is back in the park
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The geese are milling around backstage in the greenest of green rooms. A crew is planting marigolds on the route between the gate and the stage. The mosquitos are working out their ensemble numbers. Sound cues … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre. 12thnight.ca, Measure For Measure
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Creation and destruction: the story of an artist in Stone and Soil, at Nextfest. Meet playwright Gabby Bernard
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not random chance that the role Gabby Bernard wrote for herself in her first full-length solo play is an artist character. It’s a sign of the age. After all, theatre artists have had two years … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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The building of Pressure, at Nextfest. Meet playwright Amanda Samuelson
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Amanda Samuelson remembers the moment Pressure began to build. Her play, which gets a workshop reading at Nextfest Saturday and then becomes Nextfest’s first-ever official Fringe show in August, began in the winter of 2018. In … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnightca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest 2022, Nextfest Arts Company, Roxy Theatre, Theatre Network
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Ten years of SkirtsAfire: amplifying the voices of women and non-binary artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been a decade, amazingly, since Annette Loiselle and a couple of her actor friends, Sharla Matkin and Nadien Chu, sat at the Carrot Cafe, plotting over popcorn, red wine, and lopsided statistics. For years Loiselle, … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Avenue, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Westbury Theatre
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Awwright! Hanging with the guy who can walk on water, and other lessons at the Play The Fool Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So, how was your Monday? Me? I went to a festival (online) and met Jesus. It was a learning experience. “The man who can walk on water,” as billed (for, like, forever), turned out to be … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Fringe TV, Hit That Jive Productions, Play The Fool Festival
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Coming out, in a brand new musical: One Song, a review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One Song (La Cité Auditorium) “I think I just met myself … ” sings Rye (Manny Aguerrevere) in the opening number of One Song, a striking new musical for young audiences about being young, coming out, … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2021, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Margin Release
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Together We Fringe: the second annual live Telethon happens Friday
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last year about this time, we were still reeling from the woulda/coulda been’s — and the heartbreak that the 39th annual Fringe was cancelled. That was a first. And so was the telethon that The Fringe … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Fringe Telethon, Heart and Soul Fund
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