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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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An ode to bountiful Nature on the big stage: Bears at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If there was one thing Floyd loved, it was bears,” says Floyd of himself near the outset of Matthew MacKenzie’s boldly weird and wonderful play. In the course of Bears, Floyd, a Métis oil patch worker … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Trans Mountain Pipeline
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It’s the theatre season, and you have options this weekend
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Hey, there’s a Theatre Season (now, there’s a term that’s gotten a little rusty) going on in this town. There’s live theatre in your weekend — two openings Friday night alone — and you have options. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Bright Young Things, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Northern Light Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Teatro La Quindicina, Varscona Theatre
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In the house of mismatched dreams: Michael Mysterious. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m just a piece of scenery,’ says the 15-year-old title character in Geoffrey Simon Brown’s Michael Mysterious. In another kind of play by another kind of playwright, there would be a weight of tragic grievance or … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, La Cité francophone, Patrick Lundeen, Pyretic Productions
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Finding a family in the quest for happiness: Michael Mysterious premieres in a Pyretic production
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I’m wearing my heart on my sleeve with this play,” says Geoffrey Simon Brown of Michael Mysterious. One of the hottest of the country’s younger generation of playwrights, Brown is musing on the play, years in … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, La Cité francophone, Major Matt Mason Collective, Pyretic Productions
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The Particulars: the invasion of the minutiae. Punctuate! is back in town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Poor Gordon. He has a complicated problem. His life, an infestation of minutiae moment to moment, is driving him crazy. Especially at night. The scratching of vermin in the walls. The chewing of insects in his … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Matthew MacKenzie, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, The Theatre Centre
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A diary, an inheritance, and a struggle come to life in Blood of Our Soil
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “How can our land not be fertile when so much blood, both Ukrainian and foreign, has seeped into it?” Five years ago Lianna Makuch discovered a handwritten book that would have a seismic impact on her … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Pyretic Productions, Theatre of the New Heart, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Canadian heritage, Westbury Theatre
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