Monthly Archives: September 2021

EDMONten is back, to showcase full-length 10-minute plays

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca They’re new, they’re full-length, and, impossibly, they’re 10 minutes long, curtain up to curtain down. EDMONten is back this week, live and online from the Grindstone Comedy Theatre, for a second annual showcase of six original … Continue reading →

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Awwright! Hanging with the guy who can walk on water, and other lessons at the Play The Fool Fest

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca So, how was your Monday? Me? I went to a festival (online) and met Jesus. It was a learning experience. “The man who can walk on water,” as billed (for, like, forever), turned out to be … Continue reading →

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In the kingdom of high spirits: Fever Land, the live season finale at Teatro. A review

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How do you get to Fever Land? The kingdom where your temperature heats up, your spirit rises, your vivacity escalates, and that gray clammy feeling is vanquished?    Try the theatre, live and in person. The … Continue reading →

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It’s a beautiful night in the neighbourhood: The Garneau Block at the Citadel. A review.

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It was a long time coming. After 18 dark traumatic isolating months and the most terrible summer ever, a play about community, about what it means to live together in a neighbourhood and pull together — … Continue reading →

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Sending in the clowns (online): Play The Fool Fest is back

Posted on September 21, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Clowns: it takes all kinds. And we have the festival to prove it. At Play the Fool, returning Thursday (online again) for a sixth annual edition, you’ll meet “the world’s first German Nihilist life coach,” for … Continue reading →

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Jenny McKillop: meet the star of Teatro’s live in-person season finale Fever Land

Posted on September 20, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the live in-person grand finale to Teatro La Quindicina’s highly compressed summer season of filmed productions, we meet a shy, unassuming junior high Home Ec teacher who sings in a choir. In Winnipeg. In the … Continue reading →

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Conjuring Patsy in concert, live at the Mayfield: A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline. A review.

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Come on in and sit right down and make yourself at home.” The singing invitation comes from Miss Virginia Patterson Hensley of Winchester, Virginia, whose early-career name change is part of the show to follow. She … Continue reading →

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Why Edmonton? Why Garneau? What’s in a ‘hood? We ask novelist Todd Babiak about The Garneau Block

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “LET’S FIX IT.” A rallying cry? A call to action? A cosmic signal? It sounds like a communal mantra for our fraught and broken time. That mysterious three-word sign, duct-taped to trees in a signature Edmonton … Continue reading →

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Together once more, on the street where you live: The Garneau Block at the Citadel. Meet playwright Belinda Cornish.

Posted on September 15, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There was something quite magical,” says Belinda Cornish, “about having us all come together, to be a community together that one night…. It felt very special. And I felt lucky to be there.”    She’s talking … Continue reading →

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A good night’s sleep and A Fit, Happy Life, Teatro’s third filmed production. A review.

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “It’s what I do! It’s what I love!” declares a man in earnest defence of the job that is his chosen career and his avocation. Mike Brack (Mathew Hulshof) is an expert in the field of … Continue reading →

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