Tag Archives: Mile Zero Dance

Opening the doors into the past: Ecos, a multi-generational dance/theatre piece from Common Ground. A review

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the opening scene of Ecos, a woman arrives onstage to build, piece by piece, an altar of tiny objects — bottles, a wine glass, flowers, a little cake, picture frames, salt, a dead plant.… A funeral … Continue reading →

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A week of bounty in Edmonton theatre, a 12thnight survey

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a week of bounty in Edmonton theatre (your biggest problem is choice). Much-awaited new plays are premiering and so is a full-bodied multi-generational dance/theatre extravaganza. A gem of a new musical continues its run. Continuing … Continue reading →

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Edmonton, it’s time to play: here are 10 intriguing prospects in the upcoming theatre season

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey Edmonton, it’s time to come out and play.    As always our mighty summer Fringe is the tip off. And the 44th annual edition sold a spirit-lifting 140,000-plus tickets to its 221 shows, hinting at … Continue reading →

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Finding Found, the festival of unexpected encounters with art and artists

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “What’s going on here?” There’s a question that tickles the perpetrators of the Found Festival, devoted to art (and encounters with artists) in unexpected places. For a dozen Julys, no alley or park, no warehouse, or … Continue reading →

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Salute the range of E-town theatre this week, a 12thnight survey

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We salute the startling range of Edmonton theatre. It’s a week when … … Métis singer-songwriter/actor/playwright Andrea Menard takes to the Citadel MainStage with Rubaboo (the Michif word for a rich stew), an original song and … Continue reading →

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‘Celebrate amazingness!’ The Play’s The Thing has 20 Edmonton stage companies do Hamlet

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Talk about a hold on the collective consciousness. For 400-plus years the world has been wondering, and arguing, analyzing and thinking about Hamlet, the most celebrated and mysterious of plays by history’s most celebrated and mysterious … Continue reading →

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Feel your ribs vibrate: Carbon Movements at SOUND OFF, a review

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca To say that I’ve never seen anything remotely like Carbon Movements doesn’t really tell you anything about the fascinating theatre/dance performance/experience that opened the 7th annual SOUND OFF festival of deaf theatre Tuesday night. It’s out-of-body, … Continue reading →

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SOUND OFF, the groundbreaking Deaf theatre fest, dances back for a seventh annual edition

Posted on March 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

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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Transformations: what would it take to change the world? Catalyst Theatre enlisted three artists to ask the question

Posted on April 21, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “When you sign ‘new’ it means ‘to grow’.” — Chris Dodd, The Transformers: Regrowth Can something positive, something transforming emerge from a year of devastation? To imagine a better future for the world, who better to consult … Continue reading →

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Happy Valentine’s weekend: have some theatre with your champagne

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Let’s try to ignore for the moment the origins of Valentine’s Day as a feast day in honour of a martyr, and, more recently, a massacre. Or the source of a bottomless supply of gummy limericks, … Continue reading →

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