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Living between cultures, with a legacy of secrets: Feast, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feast (Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre) In Feast, you will see an Indigenous man in a T-shirt that says “You Are Living On Stolen Land” dancing gamely with a settler woman to ABBA’s The Winner Takes … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anishinaabe medicine wheel, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, indigenous theatre
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You’ll laugh (a lot) and wince: The Disney Delusion, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Disney Delusion (Grindstone Comedy Theatre) I don’t know if “wince-laughing” is a term yet in the audience reaction theatre handbook. If not, consider this clever, very funny solo play by and starring Leif Oleson-Cormack to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton stand-up comedy, Grindstone Theatre
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The wave, in free-flow dance form: Water, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Water (Westbury Theatre) The creator and the destroyer, the enigmatic element that makes us who we are, floats our boats, and drowns our hopes…. Water is the inspiration (and title) of an imaginative, free-flow new contemporary … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton dance, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Viva Dance Company
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Finding your place in the world: The ADHD Project, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The ADHD Project (La Cité francophone Auditorium) The woman before us onstage is her own best evidence that having ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has its up sides. The energy of Carlyn Rhamey’s solo show is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, ADHD, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Squirrel Suit Productions
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The impossible, pulled off brilliantly: Gordon’s Big Bald Head in MasterThief Theatre, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Gordon’s Big Bald Head: MasterThief Theatre (Varscona Theatre) If there ever was a way to celebrate the return of live fringing to our summer — and simultaneously gloat that Edmonton has something no one else has … Continue reading
Off the page and onto the stage, with murderous intent: Murder He Wrote, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Murder He Wrote: A Dickens Of An Hour (La Cité francophone theatre) The stories are vividly dramatic, ’tis true. But the translation of Charles Dickens’s rich, descriptive prose style, and his gallery of vivid characters, into … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Charles Dickens, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Oliver Twist
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What are friends for? Everything Is Beautiful, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Everything is Beautiful (La Cité francophone theatre) Two old guys on a park bench: a study in contrast. One is a gloomy gus scowler; one is a determinedly chipper smiler. One accuses restaurant servers of purposely … Continue reading
The world is on fire and there’s silence in the land of dreams: Patina, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Patina (Old Strathcona Performing Arts) What in the world is happening to the world? It’s on fire. It’s drowning. It’s melting. Its axis is slipping. Patina Bellweather (Rebecca Starr), the official child minder in Smaland, “the … Continue reading
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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Margin Release
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A cultural survey of Cuba in a hot dance musical: Mi Habana Querida, a Fringe review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Mi Habana Querida (Westbury Theatre) The idea is intriguing: a cultural survey of Cuba in a dance musical. And so is the Romeo and Juliet theatrical premise, a tale of lovers, one Cuban and one American, … Continue reading
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