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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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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 2
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a small sampling, in no particular order, of assorted highlights from a year when live theatre on Edmonton stages rose to the occasion, and did what theatre can do best, conjure worlds through other eyes, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, AI theatre, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Straight Edge Theatre, Teatro Live!, The Maggie Tree, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Tom Peacocke, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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2022: the year in Edmonton theatre, part 1
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca 2022: it was a year in theatre that started with a calendar dotted with hopeful pencilled-in dates. After a complicated 2021 of cancellations and postponements (and a late-summer re-Pivot of The Pivot), audiences were, cautiously, ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Pyretic Productions, RISER Edmonton 2022, Teatro Live!, theatre highlights in Edmonton 2022, U of A Studio Theatre, Wild Side Productions
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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
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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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Celebrating the Edmonton theatre season that returned to live, part one
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It began in some trepidation, cautiously, experimentally, with complicated logistics, under constant threat of delays and cancellations. But this was the season that live theatre actually returned to live and in-person. Yes, the pivot pivoted. We … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Catch The Keys Productions, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Play The Fool Festival, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Rapid Fire Theatre, RISER Edmonton, Roxy Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Tiny Bear Jaws, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The one-way time portal into war: Alina, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Trains, they’re like time portals,” says the title character of Alina, who steps into one at the outset. On a train you leave one world and you arrive in another. The question the drives the gripping … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian war effort
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The inheritance of war and the passion for freedom: Alina is a Ukrainian story
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In early 2015, a 19-year-old woman left Kyiv, and everything in her life there — and she went to the front line of the war zone in eastern Ukraine. Alina was not a soldier. She was … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Lianna Makuch, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Ukrainian diaspora
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