Monthly Archives: April 2024

Dear Sugar, what should I do? Tiny Beautiful Things at Shadow Theatre, a review

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca I’m confused. I’m stuck. I’m torn. I’m undecided. I’m disappointed. I’m desperate. I’m stumped…. What should I do? We the people are all up against it — in ways, big and small, expected or not, that … Continue reading →

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Grab your swords, guys, and join the brawl: The Three Musketeers swashbuckles at the Citadel, a review

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The irresistible urge to pick up something pointy and dazzle someone with fancy moves, and possibly run them through, is everywhere on display in the big, entertaining production of The Three Musketeers that brings the Citadel … Continue reading →

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En garde! The Three Musketeers at the Citadel, a fight director’s dream gig: meet Jonathan Hawley Purvis

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Never fear quarrels but seek hazardous adventures….”  — The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas En garde. The actors are armed and dangerous. In the Citadel season finale (opening Thursday on the Shoctor stage), when you see light glint … Continue reading →

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Populating a world and reclaiming the past, all on a bare stage: Basic Training, a review

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Basic Training, the impressively multi-character solo play currently running as part of the Edmonton Fringe Theatre season, Khalil Ashanti tells a fascinating story. It is his own. It’s the story of a childhood terrorized by … Continue reading →

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Onstage in Edmonton this weekend, choices! A survey

Posted on April 19, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Your biggest problem this weekend in this theatre town is … choice. That, and the moment of truth for procrastinators. And the possibilities are high-contrast, to put it mildly, from companies of every size, aesthetic, and … Continue reading →

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Survival through laughter, a true-life story: Basic Training at Edmonton Fringe Theatre

Posted on April 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The 23 characters who we meet at the Fringe’s Backstage Theatre Friday in Basic Training — conjured by a particularly agile playwright/ performer/ comedian — have taken an unusually circuitous route to get here. They’ve crossed … Continue reading →

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Back to our alma mater, for a class reunion at Rydell High. Grease at the Mayfield, a review

Posted on April 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca We all went to Rydell High. And none of us ever graduated. That’s the thing about Grease: every production of the 1972 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey is a class reunion, so to speak. … Continue reading →

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On the dark side of the fine art of storytelling: The Pillowman at Theatre Yes, a review

Posted on April 12, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There’s a hooded figure, head bowed, waiting for us in a grim basement downtown. It’s a mysterious place we’ve never been before, and, ominously, it’s lined with plastic. Uh-oh. With Martin McDonagh’s 2003 The Pillowman, Theatre … Continue reading →

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On the frontier between hilarity and horror: Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at Theatre Yes, a preview

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Get your shudder muscles ready, Edmonton, for the (very) black and disturbing comedy that opens Thursday in a production from Theatre Yes. As in Yes, The Pillowman is coming for you. The 2003 play by the … Continue reading →

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On the outside looking in: Candy & The Beast, a new Trevor Schmidt thriller at Northern Light Theatre, a review

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a dark and threatening world, a miasma of secret dangers and fear, in which we find ourselves in Candy & The Beast, a new and multi-faceted mystery thriller by (and directed by) Trevor Schmidt premiering … Continue reading →

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