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Monthly Archives: November 2021
Some day soon we all will be together… A Christmas Carol is back live at the Citadel
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Daryl Cloran has discovered an infallible new applause line, simple but profound. He’s used it in pre-show remarks to audiences at the Citadel’s productions of The Fiancée, Bears, and The Garneau Block this fall. Same effect … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, A Christmas Carol, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, David van Belle, Edmonton theatre, EPCOR Heart + Soul
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Holding the torch in a man’s world: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light Theatre. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca History is the springboard for The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921, the cunningly knotted little play that opens the Northern Light Theatre season in Trevor Schmidt’s crackling production. The title reveals the small-town crime, recorded by … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton theatre, Linda Wood Edwards, Northern Light Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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Rave on: Buddy Holly is back at the Mayfield. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “You have about as much sex appeal as a telegraph pole,” an old-timey Texas country radio DJ tells a nerdy, bespectacled young man with rock n’ roll on his mind at the outset of Buddy: The … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Buddy Holly, Edmonton theatre, jukebox musicals, Mayfield Dinner Theatre
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Linda Wood Edwards reimagines a mysterious chapter in our history: The Great Whorehouse Fire of 1921 at Northern Light
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In December 26, 1921, just outside the small Alberta town of Big Valley, a brothel started by an enterprising woman burned to the ground.Narrow escapes ensued, as duly reported by The Big Valley News that week. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta history, Big Valley, Edmonton theatre, Linda Wood Edwards, MAA and PAA Theatre, Northern Light Theatre, Varscona Theatre
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The (88) keys to the kingdom: Darrin Hagen’s solo show Metronome. A review
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In his new solo play Metronome, Darrin Hagen sits at a table under a giant arc, a rainbow of piano fragments, strings, unstrung sounding plates, keyboards. At one end, attached to the ground like the mythical … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, The Edmonton Queen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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The door slams and they’re off! The Fiancée, a deluxe new farce at the Citadel. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There they stand before us, seven closed doors. A tidy pink and cream apartment (designer: Whittyn Jason). A vision of domestic harmony: orderly arrangements of size-gradated kitchen canisters, a slice of cake under a glass dome, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Citadel Theatre, Daryl Cloran, Edmonton theatre, farce
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Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer, frat party kegger of a satire. A review.
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “I would never lie; I’ve taken poli-sci.” This declaration in song from the goofball hero got a big laugh from the preview night crowd at Grindstone Theatre’s new musical satire Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer. Hey, … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, political satire
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‘Our opportunity to meet the moment’: 366 Days, the latest from Major Matt Mason
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s a strange, unsettling thought: We are all hybrid creatures. That’s how we have to live now, forever straddling the live and the digital, not fully existing in one world or another. Are we then our … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, digital theatre, Edmonton theatre, Geoffrey Simon Brown, Major Matt Mason Collective, Pyretic Productions
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The Best Summer Ever, mantra for a musical satire: Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Best Summer Ever. Four words destined to live in infamy. An open invitation to disaster, as well we know (and everyone knew at the time). And, hey, a banner for Alberta to carry onto the … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Alberta politics, Campus St.-Jean, Edmonton comedy, Edmonton political satire, Edmonton theatre, Grindstone Comedy Theatre, Jason Kenney, Rachel Notley
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‘That piano arrived in my life for a reason’: Metronome, a new Darrin Hagen solo show premieres at Workshop West
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Have you ever tried something new, and instantly thought ‘O! I feel like I’ve been doing this my whole life?’” That’s how Darrin Hagen remembers the exact day when everything changed for the small-town Alberta trailer … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Backstage Theatre, Darrin Hagen, Edmonton theatre, Guys in Disguise, The Edmonton Queen, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre
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