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The body in motion: Expanse is back in the Chinook Series
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It starts with the body. As its name suggests, Expanse sets the body in motion in space — and celebrates what happens next. In the ever-expansive movement arts festival curated by Azimuth Theatre and returning to … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Performance Labs, Azimuth Theatre, bharata natyam, Black Arts Matter, Canoe Festival, Chinook Series, Dreamspeakers, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Good Women Dance Collective, Hong Kong Exile, Mile Zero Dance, Rubaboo Arts Festival, Sinergia, Sound Off, Third Rail Project, Workshop West
Lake of the Strangers: a magical mystery tour of a vast universe. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Last night I had a haunting experience. It was the summer of 1973. And a young Indigenous boy and his little brother, on a fishing expedition together, were sitting in a pool of water up among … Continue reading
From story to myth: Lake of the Strangers asks “how do we heal?”
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Lake of the Strangers, the solo play that premieres this week at the Backstage Theatre, you’ll meet two Indigenous brothers, 10 and seven, on a mission out in the natural world. “It’s their last summer … Continue reading
“It calls bullshit on scientific distance.” Blood: A Scientific Romance opens its mysteries under The Maggie Tree.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Something odd is happening to Jayce Mckenzie and Gianna Vacirca. Their cast-mates in Blood: A Scientific Experiment have noticed it. So has their director Brenley Charkow; ditto their producer Kristi Hansen of The Maggie Tree, an … Continue reading
The mysterious twin bonds of life and art: meet playwright Meg Braem
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You try to make sense of things,” says Meg Braem, whose chosen line of work is the transmutation of real life — in all its perplexing, maddening, intriguing potential — into art. “You’re always searching….” Braem … Continue reading
And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
Rex will rampage next week: Fringe show holdovers at the Arts Barns
Fringe’O’Saurus Rex hasn’t finished with you yet, my friends. You’ve had a reprieve on those hit shows you haven’t managed to squeeze into your Fringe menu yet. Fringe Theatre Adventures is holding over four Fringes at the Westbury (aka Fringe … Continue reading
“I need you like water”: relationships in a time of oil in Last Chance Leduc
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The fulcrum of Katherine Koller’s Last Chance Leduc — the third in her Alberta Landworks Trilogy about human relationships destabilized by seismic shifts in industry — is the moment of Alberta’s gold rush. I refer, of … Continue reading
Cleave, a sense of possibility in contradiction: a review of Tiny Bear Jaws’ latest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca No wonder we’re screwed up. We’re looking for definitive clarity and judgment in a language full of unruly verbs — dust, sanction, screen, bolt, cleave — that contain their own opposites. Cleave: to hold together. Cleave: … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, Fringe Theatre Adventures, intersex characters, Tiny Bear Jaws
