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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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Raising funds for Ukraine: theatre steps up. A play, a playwright, Pyretic Productions, and the Blyth Festival
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It started with the discovery of a hand-written diary, the journal in which Lianna Makuch’s grandmother recorded her flight, on foot, from war-ravaged Ukraine in 1944. That wrenching chronicle, and an anniversary of the full-scale Russian … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blyth Festival, Canadian Red Cross, Canadian-Ukrainian Foundation, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Kyiv Pride, OutRight Action, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions
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2021: the year Edmonton theatre returned to live (part one)
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In theatre, 2021 is a year that isn’t ending as it began. It was more than half over when The Pivot pivoted. Live performance gradually, cautiously ventured out of its online exile, where it had creatively … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, best of theatre 2021, Citadel Theatre, Dana Wylie, Edmonton theatre, Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Grindstone Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Skirts AFire Festival, Teatro La Quindicina, The Major Matt Mason Collective, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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‘Our opportunity to meet the moment’: 366 Days, the latest from Major Matt Mason
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a strange, unsettling thought: We are all hybrid creatures. That’s how we have to live now, forever straddling the live and the digital, not fully existing in one world or another. Are we then our … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, digital theatre, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Major Matt Mason Collective, Pyretic Productions
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