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An ensemble devoted to expanding the comedy spectrum: Teatro at 40, the birthday season continues
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro La Quindicina at 40. An artist-run company specially tuned to comedy, with co-artistic directors who both made their Teatro debuts as actors: same season (2005-2006), different plays, roles written specially for them by playwright/Teatro muse … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The might-have-been hits home: it’s Fringe Eve in Edmonton
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For months I knew it would come. The weirdest week of a weird summer. The week the Fringe doesn’t happen. It’s a might-have-been that leaves us face to face with the strangest, most unrecognizable of vistas … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, FringeLiveStream, FringeTV, The Fringe That Never Was
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Live theatre: has it found a footing on a platform instead of a stage in Zoom-laden times?
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A lifetime ago (March 25, 2020 to be precise), Malachite Theatre’s resourceful artistic director Benjamin Blyth explained to me that the company had borrowed an interactive online platform from the business world for a new venture. … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Reviews
Tagged Amoris Productions, Citadel Theatre, Die-Nasty, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Gender? I Hardly Know You, Girl Brain, Hit & Myth, Le Fixe Theatre, Lodestar Theatre, Malachite Theatre, Old Vic Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, RSC, Shakespeare By The Bow, Stratford Festival, Theatre Calgary, Zoom theatre
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The Fringe That Never Was comes to you, with Fringe Revue episode 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fateful moment of the Fringe-less August approaches in the distance (OK, let’s not think about that right now). I know I know. You can’t actually go to the Fringe this year. But The Fringe That … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cuban Movements, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Mind of a Snail, Miranda Allen, Murray Utas, The Fringe That Never Was
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The return of the 12thnight holiday quiz
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Curl up, hoist a glass to the intrepid energy and invention of our theatre artists, check out our review of 2019 theatre highlights here— and try our holiday theatre quiz. In which show, produced this year … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Edmonton theatre season, holiday quiz
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The magic of a delightful play: The Importance of Being Earnest, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Todd Babiak
The Importance of Being Earnest (Stage 15, Holy Trinity Anglican Church) Oscar Wilde understood the potential of the English language, to delight, better than almost anyone who came before or after him. This is how we can have two successful … Continue reading
Posted in Fringe 2018, Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton Fringe reviews, Empress of Blandings Productions, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
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“Grotesque fun” with Shakespeare: Macbeth Muet and the return of Surreal SoReal. A Fringe preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Grotesque fun,” says Jon Lachlan Stewart. “There’s a lot of laughs in our production. And then there’s not….” He’s talking about Macbeth Muet, a 60-minute version of Shakespeare’s swift and brutal tragedy that dismisses every Forsooth … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Jon Lachlan Stewart, La Fille du laitier, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Surreal SoReal Theatre
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Big news from 12thnight.ca
Hello theatre friends! It’s the eve of the Fringe, Edmonton’s favourite summer festival, best idea, and most influential export ever. Live theatre, the most exciting and immediate art form of all, is on our minds! Eighteen months ago, I … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Patreon
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