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To be or not to be: Hamlet served six ways, from Thou Art Here Theatre
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The time is out of joint (I think we can all agree with Prince of Denmark on that). Isolating, infuriating, anxiety-making, rippling with hints of mortality and “the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Hamlet, Shakespeare, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre
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Did you hear about the party? A world of surveillance in Bevin Dooley’s In Camera at Found Fest
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shhhh. This weekend in Old Strathcona you may find yourself doing something subversive, illegal, and quite possibly dangerous. No, not jaywalking, my friends (or plotting against the damn Edmonton parking app). You’ll be in a one-bedroom … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival 2019, immersive theatre, site-specific theatre
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Finding yourself at Found, the festival of art in unexpected places
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Finding art, and artists, in places you never expected to run into them: hey, Edmonton has a festival for that. With the return of the Found Festival Thursday, for an eight annual weekend of surprising … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, site-specific theatre
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Thou Art Where? A roving production of Shakespeare’s Will in a cemetery, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Thou Art Here!, a company that does Shakespeare meet-and-greets in unexpected locations, takes us to a graveyard. It’s dusk. Five ghostly women appear through the trees in the distance and come towards us. As the daylight … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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Mrs. Shakespeare gets her voice back, in a graveyard: Shakespeare’s Will with Thou Art Here!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “A woman dancing on a grave.” That’s the image that inspired the roving outdoor production of Vern Thiessen’s Shakespeare’s Will opening Thursday in a cemetery near you, says director Andrew Ritchie. So decisively did that image … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Anne Hathaway, Edmonton theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Will, site-specific theatre, Thou Art Here Theatre, Vern Thiessen
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Found Festival 2018: surprising finds, unexpected encounters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Found, the festival that’s all about the find — art and artists in places you never expected to run into them — is back this weekend in Old Strathcona for a seventh annual edition. It’s all about … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Dart, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Found Festival, found space art, site-specific 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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I went to that bash at Brad’s: Everyone We Know Will Be There
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So, I was at this house party last night…. Brad was turning 17, and (thank god) his parents were out of town. People got high. Kids got trashed, in every sense of the word. Kids had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Andrew Ritchie, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, Found Festival, Nextfest, site-specific theatre
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