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The dark pathways to coming-of-age: Boy Trouble at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre is dim, lit with a barrage of come-hither text messages: “send a vid”, “wyd”, “join me and a couple buds”, “your cute”, “no pic no chat” “my truck?”. When the lights come up, you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre
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Spinning an urban story on wheels: Thou Art Here opens its season with Cycle
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Andrew Ritchie has spent the last year spinning his wheels. He’s been up on his bike writing the solo play that shares a lane with an audience this weekend for the first time. Cycle, which launches … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton bike lanes, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Anahita’s Republic: a thriller takes us into the world of Iran and the struggle for women’s rights
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The thriller that gets its Alberta premiere Friday at the Backstage Theatre takes us to a tense world where “freedom” reverberates at a frequency very different from our own. The disparity between its application to men … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 12thnight.cah, AuTash Productions, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Iranian theatre, Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Walterdale Theatre
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Boy Trouble: a new play about growing up the hard way, queer and without role models
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The teenage characters we meet in Boy Trouble are growing up the hard way: queer and on the Prairies. Coming-of-age, the universal struggle for identity, is harder times 100 when you’re figuring out your sexuality for … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amoris Projects, Edmonton Fringe Spotlight Series, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest
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Coming of age in a warming world: meet Dayna Lea Hoffmann, the star of A Hundred Words For Snow
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It doesn’t feel that long ago since I was 15,” says Dayna Lea Hoffmann. “I look back and it was nearly 10 years ago….” “This is me kissing my youth goodbye,” she says at the advanced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Shadow Theatre
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Can you spell p-a-n-d-e-m-o-n-i-u-m? Grindstone Theatre is doing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Grindstone Theatre they launch festivals, one after the other, indoors or out — devoted to sketch or stand-up, improv or disco, even mural painting. They celebrate Pride and Fringe in a big way, and all … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway musicals, Campus St.-Jean, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Theatre
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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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How the West was won: Gender? I Hardly Know Them at Expanse Fest, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As their own song goes (you’ll have to imagine the ukulele accompaniment and the cheery tone), “Alberta’s tough for prairie queers.” But somehow, amazingly, they haven’t let this place, harsh, marginalizing, and right-sliding as it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Expanse Fest is back to celebrate the body in motion
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 10-day movement arts festival that returns Thursday for an 19th annual edition starts with the body in motion. All bodies in motion. And then it expands. That’s Expanse, the nimble, elasticized (and well-named) festival of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton dance, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, The OKO, Tiny Bear Jaws
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On a journey through the universe: The Space Between Stars headlines SkirtsAfire 2023
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You — you alone will have stars as no one else has them.” — The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry And the space between them is yours to claim, too, as theatre artist Christine Lesiak has discovered in … Continue reading
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Tagged clown theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Play The Fool Festival, SkirtsAfire Festival 2023, Small Matters Theatre
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