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‘Questions that make the house shake with silence’: Something Unspoken streamed at Northern Light. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Northern Light Theatre’s exquisite little streamed version of Something Unspoken, a rarely produced Tennessee Williams’ one-act from the ‘50s, is a bit like a whisper in a bubble. Breathe too hard and it will vanish. In … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Tennessee Williams, Varscona Theatre
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A relationship between the lines: Something Unspoken, streamed by Northern Light Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s just that I feel that there’s something unspoken between us that ought to be spoken….” — Something Unspoken, Tennessee Williams The 1950s Tennessee Williams one-act play that opens online Friday — the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Tennessee Williams, Varscona Theatre
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The Situation We Find Ourselves In, and other theatrical possibilities for your weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca And for your cold winter weekend … theatre to the rescue. Yes, there are plays, two-minute films, a new book club — all online, from Punctuate! Theatre, Northern Light, Theatre Network, Play The Fool Festival, Catalyst. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daniel MacIvor, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, St. Ann's Warehouse, Theatre Network
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The Look, from Northern Light: “for the many women you are.” A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not enough to have the look, the former face of Estelle Cosmetics tells her audience of trainees, emphatically, near the outset of The Look. “You have to live the look.” Which is exactly what Marilyn … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, streaming theatre, Trevor Schmidt
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Looking forward to 2021 in Edmonton theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I know what you’re thinking.… The world has been so chaotic and unpredictable this past year that you’d have to be crazy to ink in a calendar of upcoming theatre events. But one thing … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Concrete Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Roxy Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2020: the strange year in Edmonton theatre (what just happened here? part 2)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020 was the year that a beaming singer arrived on the Varscona stage, draped herself in a chair centrestage to deliver a torchy number. And the host (Andrew MacDonald-Smith) calmly strode over and threw a sheet … Continue reading
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Tagged Amoris Projects, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR, Factory Theatre, Found Festival, Free Willies, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Heat + Soul Fund, Northern Light Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, The Coldharts, Theatre Calgary, U of A Arts, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2020: a year like no other in Edmonton theatre (part 1)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2020: the year the laws of probability bent so far out of shape they snapped. Along with satire, futurist dystopian fantasies ceded pride of place to … reality. Every definition of live theatre was up against … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Catalyst Theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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We Had A Girl Before You: what happened to her? A new Gothic thriller opens the Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca O no O no…. Don’t look through that keyhole. And don’t open that door. Trevor Schmidt’s new gothic thriller looks through that keyhole, and opens that door (and the Northern Light Theatre season), Friday. In We … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, gothic thrillers, Guys in Disguise, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt, Westbury Theatre
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