Monthly Archives: May 2023

So, what’s new? Come to Nextfest 2023, and find out

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What’s new? What’s next? What are our up-and-coming artists thinking about anyhow? You’re in a position to find out for yourself since the 28th annual edition of Nextfest, the multi-disciplinary 11-day (and night) festival dreamed up … Continue reading →

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Sunday in the park with Greeks: Euripides’ Helen from Trunk Theatre, a review

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Sometimes you just have to marvel at the adventurous chutzpah of Edmonton indie theatre. You just don’t expect to find yourself in a park on a sunny Sunday afternoon sitting in a lawn chair watching a … Continue reading →

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A social media thriller, in a digital world that works on escalation: Subscribe or Like at Workshop West, a review

Posted on May 28, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Sometimes I wonder what’s real,” says Rachel, one half of the millennial couple in Subscribe Or Like. That invasive ambiguity digs an ever-deeper channel right through a relationship in this very tense, fascinating new play by … Continue reading →

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‘Music without ego’: background music vs silence, a fierce battle in Listen Listen, a new Teatro comedy. A review

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is a quixotic premise that underscores Listen Listen, the new Elyne Quan comedy premiering in the Teatro Live season in a Belinda Cornish production. And it will make you smile. In a mall in 1986, … Continue reading →

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The Answer Is Fringe: the upcoming 42nd edition of our summer theatre bash, and a curated season of shows, too

Posted on May 26, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We’ve long suspected it. And now it’s official. “The answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything” is … the Fringe.  The Answer is Fringe, the upcoming 42nd annual edition of Edmonton’s summer … Continue reading →

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Fame and fortune in the digital world: Liam Salmon’s Subscribe or Like taps into millennial ambition

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca You’ve got to figure it’s no accident Liam Salmon wants to meet for coffee the old-fashioned way, in person, to talk about their new play Subscribe or Like, premiering live and in person Friday at Workshop … Continue reading →

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Listen, Listen: a new Teatro Live ‘Muzak-al comedy’ by Elyne Quan. Meet the playwright in this preview

Posted on May 23, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca For five years or so, a character has taken up residence in a back corner in Elyne Quan’s writer brain. He’s an ideal renter. He lives quietly; he doesn’t play his music loud. Montague Gray, who … Continue reading →

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The fascinating contradictions of Anahita’s Republic, a review

Posted on May 22, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Anahita’s Republic is a thriller set in a mysterious world of concealed faces and shadows, secret agents, secret police, hidden agendas. That world is contemporary Iran. The playwriting duo of Hengameh E. Rice, one half Iranian … Continue reading →

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The improbable magic of live: Flop! the improvised musical, a little review

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Calling an improvised musical Flop! is like calling a plastic surgery practice Oops! or an aerial circus Thud!. It’s irresistible; you can’t not look. But then, it’s clearly impossible: making up an entire musical, with an … Continue reading →

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The dark pathways to coming-of-age: Boy Trouble at Fringe Theatre, a review

Posted on May 19, 2023 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The theatre is dim, lit with a barrage of come-hither text messages: “send a vid”, “wyd”, “join me and a couple buds”, “your cute”, “no pic no chat” “my truck?”. When the lights come up, you … Continue reading →

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