Tag Archives: Edmonton Fringe Theatre

It’s Fringe Eve, the moment to consider intriguing prospects in a year to experiment

Posted on August 11, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s Fringe Eve (the night the green onion fairy leaves a special stay-awake pill under your pillow). And lordie lordie, our giant summer alternative theatre extravaganza is turning 40. The big four-oh? During a pandemic? A … Continue reading →

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Deafy at the Fringe: changing the landscape for Deaf theatre

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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Will goes fringing: Freewill Shakespeare Festival takes their resident playwright to the Fringe

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For more than three decades, they’ve camped out in the river valley every summer with the world’s most famous playwright. And they’ve shown off their artist-in-residence in big full-bodied productions under the Heritage Amphitheatre canopy. For … Continue reading →

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Making real space: péhonán, a venue for Indigenous artists at the Fringe

Posted on August 6, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The name, in Cree, means “meeting place.” That’s how Josh Languedoc explains pêhonân, the Fringe incarnation of the Roxy on Gateway (temporary home of Theatre Network). “And not just gathering…. It’s a waiting place that’s welcoming, … Continue reading →

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The Fringe returns to its experimental roots: tickets go on sale Wednesday at noon

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The name of this year’s edition of the Edmonton Fringe is itself is a spirit-lifter, par excellence: Together We Fringe. It’s a salute to live gathering — in a nutshell exactly what we’ve been missing in … Continue reading →

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Together We Fringe: the second annual live Telethon happens Friday

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

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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Rocko and Nakota: star storyteller Josh Languedoc is back for National Indigenous Peoples Day

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It sits differently in my body, in my voice,” says Josh Languedoc, musing on his widely travelled solo show Rocko and Nakota: Tales From The Land. “Something has shifted this time around.” It’s been that kind … Continue reading →

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‘A Fringe Event’: what to expect as the Fringe goes back to its roots

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Solstice … yeah whatever. It’s impossible to think of summer without visions of the Fringe, dancing in the outskirts of your brain and gradually moving in for full occupancy. In the four decades they’ve been entwined, … Continue reading →

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Finding a path forward for the Edmonton Fringe: Adam Mitchell has thoughts about that as he leaves the festival

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 25 years at the Fringe, he’s been the production manager, the technical director, the operations manager for a 33,000 square foot multi-theatre complex that started out as a bus barn. He’s been a Fringe venue … Continue reading →

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The Edmonton Fringe bids farewell to Executive Director Adam Mitchell

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edmonton Fringe Theatre is bidding adieu to its Executive Director. After five years in the demanding administration job atop the company that presents Edmonton’s giant International Fringe Theatre Festival (the country’s oldest, largest, and most influential … Continue reading →

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