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How the West was won: Gender? I Hardly Know Them at Expanse Fest, a little review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca As their own song goes (you’ll have to imagine the ukulele accompaniment and the cheery tone), “Alberta’s tough for prairie queers.” But somehow, amazingly, they haven’t let this place, harsh, marginalizing, and right-sliding as it can … Continue reading
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Tagged Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, Gender? I Hardly Know Them, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Expanse Fest is back to celebrate the body in motion
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 10-day movement arts festival that returns Thursday for an 19th annual edition starts with the body in motion. All bodies in motion. And then it expands. That’s Expanse, the nimble, elasticized (and well-named) festival of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Azimuth Theatre, Edmonton dance, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Expanse Festival 2023, The OKO, Tiny Bear Jaws
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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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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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Sexual assault, scorched earth, and the fire that burns: Smoke, a review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Smoke is both of the air and the earth. And so is Elena Belyea’s challenging and elusive play, getting its Edmonton premiere at Co*Lab in a Tiny Bear Jaws production with two casts. Smoke is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws
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Where there’s fire there’s … Smoke: assault, consent and gender in a play with two casts
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Smoke, getting its Edmonton premiere Thursday at Co*Lab, a woman opens her apartment door to discover that the past has showed up. Aiden’s -ex is there to confront her about allegations she’s made to a … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Co*Lab, Downstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Punctuate! Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws
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‘Orchid, pause recording’: I Don’t Even Miss You, a Tiny Bear Jaws dance musical for a contactless world. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you think that the last two years have kicked the crap out of satire, think what they’ve done to speculative fiction. Or existential crises. With I Don’t Even Miss You, premiering in RISER Edmonton’s 2022 … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A.I theatre, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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I Don’t Even Miss You: love and legacy in a new multi-disciplinary ‘musical’ from Tiny Bear Jaws
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I can never go back to the person I was in 2020,” says Elena Belyea. And the world can’t go back to its old self either. Which brings her to “the central question: What do you … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Co*Lab, Common Ground Arts Society, Edmonton theatre, RISER Edmonton, Tiny Bear Jaws, Why Not Theatre
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New faces in theatre: smile, here’s sketch and improv star Sydney Campbell
They’re young, bright, and unstoppably creative. And, pandemic be damned, their adaptable, flexible talents are already lighting up the Edmonton theatre scene. In this 12thnight series you’ll meet some of E-town’s sought-after up-and-comers, artists whose work, on- and backstage, is … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton improv, Edmonton theatre, Elena Belyea, Gender? We Hardly Know Them, Rapid Fire Theatre, Tiny Bear Jaws, U of A drama department
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