Tag Archives: Expanse Festival

The self in a bind: the RISER New Works Festival opens with Calla Wright’s Binding

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca New this year the RISER New Works Festival began its weekend of performances and workshops last night with a work-in-progress production of a challenging and playful one-human many-puppet show. Destined for Azimuth Theatre’s Expanse Festival in … Continue reading →

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The rise of RISER: a new works festival from Common Ground

Posted on May 11, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca RISER has risen. Again, and in a new, expanded form. Edmonton, where theatre is the leading arts industry, was always the right place for the visionary national initiative — launched by Toronto’s Why Not Theatre — … Continue reading →

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New plays, revivals, festivals, cabarets, improv, genre switcheroos: we survey an intriguing week in Edmonton theatre

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A big opening by a premier Canadian playwright, an improbable steal by big-budget theatre, a powerful verbatim-theatre production, a musical by a new-ish company — and another two-festival week on Edmonton stages, one devoted to the body … Continue reading →

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‘My love letter to queer and trans kids’: The Adventure of Young Turtle launches Expanse Festival 2024

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One morning this week, I went on an undersea excursion backstage at the Westbury Theatre, and I met an apprehensive moray eel. Their body was once an air compressor hose, their eyes Gatorade bottle lids, and … Continue reading →

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The season in Edmonton theatre, part 2

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022-2023 in Edmonton theatre (post-Fringe) was the season of … … a new home: Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s longest-running improv comedy, moved into spiffy, beautifully located, new place in Strathcona, the Exchange on 83rd Ave. … … Continue reading →

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Expanse 2021, the festival of bodies in motion, moves online

Posted on March 25, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Creating more space.” It’s a phrase that recurs like a mantra, and an invitation, when Azimuth Theatre’s two new co-artistic producers Sue Goberdhan and Morgan Yamada talk about this year’s Expanse Festival, opening tonight on an … Continue reading →

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“It’s what happens when you say Yes!” Feel the breeze at the 2020 Chinook Series

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Chinook “is what happens when you say Yes!” laughs Vanessa Sabourin. She’s talking about the cutting-edge curated performance series that skips as lightly across artistic disciplines as the surprising winter breeze with the built-in warming trend. … Continue reading →

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Shakespeare gets a Cree cosmology re-fit: Pawâkan Macbeth arrives for Chinook

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Feel the breeze. Chinook, the resource-sharing multi-disciplinary series devoted to melting our preconceptions and expanding our experience of live performance and creation, is at hand. It’s a measure of creative vision (and chutzpah) that the 2020 … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentine’s champagne and a show: where to take your date to celebrate

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Of all the high holidays, the one that shares a name with a variety of massacres and martyrdoms is coming up. It’s also the ultimate date night. So in order to celebrate romance, there are a … Continue reading →

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The sense of connection: Paradise at the Chinook Series

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In 1992, Patti Flather’s father, a family doctor, was murdered outside his North Vancouver home — shot by a former patient with an undiagnosed mental illness. Reflections on that traumatizing event eventually found their way into … Continue reading →

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