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Ten years of SkirtsAfire: amplifying the voices of women and non-binary artists
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s been a decade, amazingly, since Annette Loiselle and a couple of her actor friends, Sharla Matkin and Nadien Chu, sat at the Carrot Cafe, plotting over popcorn, red wine, and lopsided statistics. For years Loiselle, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta Avenue, Edmonton festivals, Edmonton theatre, SkirtsaFire Festival, Westbury Theatre
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We Had A Girl Before You: what happened to her? A new Gothic thriller opens the Northern Light season
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca O no O no…. Don’t look through that keyhole. And don’t open that door. Trevor Schmidt’s new gothic thriller looks through that keyhole, and opens that door (and the Northern Light Theatre season), Friday. In We … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, gothic thrillers, Guys in Disguise, Northern Light Theatre, Trevor Schmidt, Westbury Theatre
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All That Binds Us: a new Azimuth Theatre creation ponders connection in a fragmented world
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a thought with special reverb in a world of fragmentation, enforced distance, separation, isolation: “People don’t want perfection; they want connection,” declares Reneltta Arluk, director of All That Binds Us, premiering Friday in a live … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Akpik Theatre, Azimuth Theatre, Banff Centre, Chromatic Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe theatre, Reneltta Arluk, Westbury Theatre
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“We’re back to who we are!” Murray Utas launches Fringe Revue
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca If you were in any doubt before that, the moment in mid-April the mighty Edmonton Fringe pulled the plug on its 39th annual edition in August, was a capital-M Moment of confirmation that the world had … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe, Edmonton Fringe Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, Westbury Theatre
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The world is ending, so what about Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa …? Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play is on it. A preview
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So a director and an a choreographer go into a Strathcona bar to discuss the apocalypse and The Simpsons.… It happened last week. Whoa, the end of the world? Now what do we do? “We’re obsessed … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Blarney Productions, Edmonton theatre, Fringe Theatre Adventures, The Simpsons, Westbury Theatre, You Are Here
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Songs My Mother Never Sung Me: a coming-of-age deaf/hearing chamber opera at Chinook
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “This is the story of how my mom helped me find my voice,” says the narrator (the excellent Kieran Martin Murphy) in Songs My Mother Never Sung Me, a touching, and ingenious, new bilingual chamber opera” … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Chinook Series, Concrete Theatre, Dave Clarke, Edmonton theatre, Sound Off: A Deaf Theatre Festival, Westbury Theatre
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Hell tour via the circus: Firefly Theatre’s Inferno
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Go to hell. That’s what Jocelyn Ahlf and Belinda Cornish have been wanting to do for years. And now they have. Firefly Theatre’s 14-performer workshop production of Inferno, that takes to the stage, and also the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, aerial arts, circus theatre, Dante, Edmonton theatre, Firefly Theatre, The Inferno, Westbury Theatre
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