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Dreaming (and dancing) big: Prison Dancer premieres at the Citadel’s Collider Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a theatre festival that thinks big about the new — creating it to live on large performance spaces across the country and beyond, developing, celebrating and showcasing it. The Citadel’s Collider Festival, a collision of … Continue reading
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Tagged Canadian Film Centre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, National Arts Centre, National Creation Fund, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Prison Dancer Inc., Punctuate! Theatre
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Love and art in the time of war: First Métis Man of Odesa, at the Citadel. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Is this real?” In love and in art it’s the smelling-salts of questions. It can get your attention, startle you, give you a pinch, make you cautious. And it gets asked, at every possible angle, with … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Ukrainian Theatre
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Living a love story in real life, with real-life obstacles to a happy ending: First Métis Man of Odesa, at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca First Metis Man of Odesa, opening at the Citadel April 27, is at its heart a love story, ignited by a chance spark — a “something between us” — in a theatre across the world from … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Highwire Series, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian Theatre
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A coming-of-age thriller: Freaky Green Eyes at Fringe Theatre, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The opening image of Freaky Green Eyes is a girl poised on a diving board, about to take the plunge. In Emma Houghton’s solo show, an artful stage adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 powerfully dark … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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The mystery behind the memory: Freaky Green Eyes, how a novel became a new play, premiering at Fringe Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hi! I don’t know if I have the right email address. I’m a theatre artist from Edmonton, Alberta. I really love your book. And I’d really love to adapt it into a stage show….” It took … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Joyce Carol Oates, Punctuate! Theatre
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Wait, there’s more…. Act II of the theatre season is about to begin
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Stay tuned; face forward. There’s more! Intermission’s over, my friends, and Act II of the Edmonton theatre season is about to begin. Freaky Green Eyes, Emma Houghton’s original adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel, premieres … Continue reading
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Tagged Citadel Theatre, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Ground Zero Productions, Invisible Practice, Nextfest, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Shadow Theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Teatro Live!, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here Theatre, Varscona Theatre, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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Behind the scenes in war, a story of human resilience: Barvinok, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “My Baba has a secret,” says Ukrainian-Canadian Hania in the opening moments of Barvinok. “A secret she is bringing with her to her grave.” As we learn in Lianna Makuch’s suspenseful and moving play, inspired by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian-Canadian theatre
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A cultural inheritance, a quest, and a haunting: Barvinok launches a tour here
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “The universal desire, the need, desire, to understand who you are, where you came from….” That’s what drew Ukrainian-Canadian playwright Lianna Makuch across the ocean to her ancestral homeland. And that quest was her creative inspiration, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian-Canadian theatre
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It’s time to play: a peek at the new Edmonton theatre season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Destination Fringe, with its 95,000 or so tickets sold, was a hint (we deal in big hints here in #yeg. People know what they’ve been missing; they want live in-person theatre experience and the sharing that … Continue reading
Posted in Features, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Gordon's Big Bald Head, MacEwan University theatre arts, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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Spirits rise: revisiting the Edmonton theatre season, part two
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Fever Land, according to that heartbreaking/ riotous comedy by which Teatro La Quindicina returned to live performance last fall, is the kingdom where your spirits rise, vivacity accelerates, and the gray clammy feeling of routine is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Shadow Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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