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Monthly Archives: November 2018
What A Young Wife Ought To Know: a 20s love story with a modern reverb opens the Theatre Network season:
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Ladies, you’ve come by it, have you? Can I ask, do you tell your Husbands…that you’ve come by it, or…do you….keep it from them….?” — Sophie in What A Young Wife Ought To Know, Hannah Moscovitch In … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, 2b theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hannah Moscovitch, Marianne Copithorne, reproductive rights, Roxy on Gateway, Theatre Network, women's sexual health
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Raising a little hell: Canada 151 at the Mayfield. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You know you’re in Canada when the Beachcombers theme is in the air pre-show. And the band arrives onstage in lumberjack shirts. And your heart melts just a little when everyone in the opening production … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Canada 151, Canadian music, Edmonton theatre, Kate Ryan, Mayfield Dinner Theatre, musical revues, Van Wilmott
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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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Oil Patch, Theatre Yes, verbatim theatre
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One fine night (or the case of the reluctant star): Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the history of the Great White Way, there’s no shortage of musicals, jukebox and otherwise, that are defined by the showbiz gene: the drive for stardom, the magnetic pull of performance, the compelling need to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Broadway Across Canada, Carole King, Edmonton theatre, Gerry Goffin, Jubilee Auditorium
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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
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta oil and gas industry, Backstage Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Heather Inglis, Theatre Yes, verbatim theatre, Viscosity
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Some kind of wonderful: Beautiful: the Carole King Musical comes to the Jube. Meet the star Sarah Bockel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “She’s … normal,” says Sarah Bockel, musing on the woman she plays in the jukebox musical that arrives on the Jube stage Tuesday under the Broadway Across Canada touring banner. “She’s grounded. Pretty self-effacing. And also … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Brill Building, Broadway Across Canada, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Jubilee Auditorium, jukebox musicals
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The quest to be a warrior: an Indigenous story gets a powerful telling in Redpatch. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the striking opening moments of Redpatch a masked prophet in a pyramid of light asks “what is life?” and then vanishes into mist. It’s a question with legs (and vast reservoirs of imaginative and aerobic … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Hardline Productions, indigenous theatre, Vancouver Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver theatre
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Song-and-dance con men, two World War I plays, and more… a theatre weekend in E-town
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca A con game (with song and dance) is one of your options for a night out at live theatre this weekend. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a larky musical by the team of David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Edmonton theatre, Foote in the Door Productions, Grindstone Theatre, Neil Grahn, Rapid Fire Theatre, Shadow Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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I sing of Pretenderos, land of plot complications. The return of Die-Nasty to a lawless land
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Trolls? You want trolls? How about a dragon? “I’ll make it happen,” says a portentous rumbling voice from the dark. “This is a world with No Rules.” Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Welcome to … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Die-Nasty, Edmonton theatre, improv comedy, Lord of Thrones, Varscona Theatre
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