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A night walk through Strathcona: Workshop West launches season with ‘an adventure into the unknown’
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre is back in action next week — live, on its feet, and in motion. And it’s with an original promenade adventure that takes you on a nocturnal walk through Old Strathcona. The … Continue reading
Back to live theatre: are you game? That’s the question as E-town theatres make (and re-make) plans for the fall
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Lessons from the pandemic: “Phases” may come (and go). But a great triple-sided mystery remains. You can throw open theatre doors. But will people want to return? Under what conditions? And when? The good news is … Continue reading
The year in Edmonton theatre: looking back on 2019
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Social media, video games, pop culture, the 2-D screen world … “all worthless, and we don’t even watch the same worthless things together,” rages Vanya, letting loose an elegiac full-blooded rant on the modern devaluation of … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broken Toys Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Kat Sandler, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre Company, Punctuate! Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Wildside Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
Heather Inglis is Workshop West Playwrights Theatre’s new artistic producer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Workshop West Playwrights Theatre has a new “artistic producer.” She’s Heather Inglis, the founder and artistic director of the adventurous Edmonton-based indie company Theatre Yes. With the departure of Vern Thiessen after five years as artistic … Continue reading
It’s show time in Edmonton theatre: what to not miss this season on E-town stages
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “That was what had been missing from his life all these years. His career, his city, this bonehead province. Mythic Power.” — The Garneau Block. In Todd Babiak’s wry and funny novel The Garneau Block, reborn … Continue reading
Posted in News/Views, Previews
Tagged 2019-2020 theatre season, Azimuth Theatre, Blarney Productions, Bright Young Things, Broadway Across Canada, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Impossible Mongoose, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Todd Babiak, Varscona Theatre Ensemble, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, You Are Here Theatre
Slight of Mind: boarding now at the Citadel, flights into the unknown. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Notes from the departure lounge: We’ve been welcomed by a ground crew of beaming and perky flight attendants. We’ve been through security. Very professional. “Have you been on a farm?” No. “Have you consumed anything organic?” … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Amelia Earhart, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Icarus, promenade theatre, Theatre Yes, Valentina Tereshkova
Say Yes to flight: Slight of Mind takes us through the secret caverns of the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What goes up must come down. In the multi-pronged flight of fancy that opens Friday at the Citadel, you’ll do a little of both as Slight of Mind takes you on a journey into the … Continue reading
Posted in Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beth Graham, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, immersive theatre, promenade theatre, Theatre Yes
How to meet people you never meet: thoughts on Viscosity
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Life is full of surprises. Last night I found myself sitting at a bar stool next to a woman I’d just never run into in my usual life of 7:30 curtain times. She’s a heavy-equipment operator … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Oil Patch, Theatre Yes, verbatim theatre
Viscosity: Theatre Yes challenges preconceptions about big oil and the people who work it
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s not exactly a play, although there are actors. It’s not exactly journalism, although the monologues are transcribed (and edited) verbatim from interviews with real-life people. And you might resist calling it an exhibit, although you … Continue reading
And so it begins, the new theatre season. Edmonton has play dates, and here’s a teaser!
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “If you’re stuck in your story and want to get out … sometimes you have to be a little bit naughty….” Matilda. In Matilda, the joyously subversive musical spun from Roald Dahl’s novel, our activist eight-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Features, News/Views, Previews
Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Brian Webb Dance Company, Broadway Across Canada, Cardiac Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Hardline Theatre, L'UniThéâtre, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Plain Jane Theatre, Roxy Performance Series, Shadow Theatre, Studio Theatre, Teatro La Quindicina, Theatre Network, Theatre Yes, Thou Art Here, Wild Side Productions, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
