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Behind the red door: a Forever Home for Rapid Fire Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A Forever Home is for dreaming in. For feeling you have a place in the world, imagining your potential, getting creative. At 42, Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton’s premier improv company and its longest running, is experienced … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton improv comedy, Edmonton theatre, Old Strathcona, Rapid Fire Theatre, Strathcona telephone exchange, TELUS, Theatre Network, Theatresports, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Surprise! Finding yourself at Found 2022: the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca At Found 2022 you could find yourself … following a story into a fort in the river valley. You could find yourself in a hidden nook of Old Strathcona, in a park, in a garbage enclosure … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Found Festival 2022, Old Strathcona, Popcorn Galaxies, Thou Art Here Theatre
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A home of their own, in the entertainment ‘hood: Rapid Fire Theatre at 41
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’ve dreamed it for years. Now, at age 41, Rapid Fire Theatre finally has a home of their own. And it’s in the ‘hood that’s their traditional home base, Old Strathcona. Edmonton’s premier improv company is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Group2, Old Strathcona, Old Strathcona Business Association, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Strathcona Exchange Building
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Rapid Fire Theatre: back live, and back on their home turf in Old Strathcona
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Rapid Fire Theatre has a new home for the new year. The agile Edmonton improv company, 41 seasons old (but young at heart), de-camped this week from downtown and moved back to their traditional stomping ground, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Old Strathcona, Rapid Fire Theatre, Roxy on Gateway, Theatresports
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It’s Fringe Eve, the moment to consider intriguing prospects in a year to experiment
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
Posted in Fringe 2021, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe 2021, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Frent Collective, Garneau Theatre, Grindstone Theatre, MAA and PAA Theatre, Old Strathcona, péhonán, Rapid Fire Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Whizgiggling Productions
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Close encounters of the puppet kind: Puppet Pub Crawl at Found Festival 2021
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For its 10th anniversary edition (and return to live) this weekend, the Found Festival has found … puppets. Seven of them, actually, each with an original tale to tell. We’ll meet them in a Found tour … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Even Gilchrist, Found Festival 2021, Old Strathcona, puppet theatre
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One on one theatre: Here There Be Night takes you into an underground resistance network
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sometimes the creative ingenuity and resilience of theatre artists just about takes your breath away. In a dangerous time when big live theatre gatherings have been cancelled, thwarted, delayed, diverted, they will find a way. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Old Strathcona, Strathcona Community League, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Losing yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Unexpected things happen when you take theatre out of theatres. And we have a festival for that. The Found Festival returns Thursday to Old Strathcona for a sixth annual weekend of strange and surprising encounters, up … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, Old Strathcona, performance art, site-specific theatre, slam poetry
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