Monthly Archives: May 2024

‘Not quite like anything else he’s written’: Belinda Cornish directs a Teatro revival of Lemoine’s The Oculist’s Holiday

Posted on May 31, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Stewart Lemoine play that opens Friday at the Varscona in the Teatro Live! season is certainly a comedy, says Belinda Cornish, who’s directing the first revival of The Oculist’s Holiday since its 2009 Fringe debut. … Continue reading →

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‘New artists, new art’: Nextfest returns to the Roxy for a 29th annual edition

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca What are they up to, the next generation of artists, the up-and-comers? Your chance to find out is close at hand. Nextfest, Edmonton’s multi-disciplinary festival of emerging arts, returns today to take over Theatre Network’s Roxy … Continue reading →

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Get your festival on (and other theatre, too) this week

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca It’s a three-festival week in this theatre town (in addition to a much anticipated theatre revival and an intriguing opera experiment).The festive season is here, and the moment is at hand for you to venture forth … Continue reading →

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Hints, signs, omens of spring: theatre possibilities this weekend

Posted on May 24, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the terrific new Conni Massing play Dead Letter, premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre we meet a woman who’s desperate for meaning, obsessed by the unaccountable, hyper-alert to any small sign from the universe that … Continue reading →

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Your invitation into a world of dreams: Peter Hinton-Davis directs a chamber version of Das Rheingold at Edmonton Opera

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The dream is as epic as the world, and as small as … a ring. Das Rheingold, the opening gambit in Richard Wagner’s monumental four-opera Ring Cycle, is the grand finale of Edmonton Opera’s 60th anniversary … Continue reading →

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The hunger for omens gets … ominous for an obsessive sleuth. Dead Letter at Workshop West, a review

Posted on May 18, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The woman we meet in Dead Letter, Conni Massing’s dark and funny, mysterious and moving, new play — premiering at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre with an all-star cast in Heather Inglis’s production — is on a … Continue reading →

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Find Your Fringe, the upcoming 43rd annual edition of our big August theatre bash, and a post-Fringe season of shows too

Posted on May 17, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The continent’s biggest and oldest Fringe festival turns 43 this summer — with shows (216 of them) and artists (1,600-plus from 11 countries). And now the upcoming edition Aug. 15 to 25 has a theme. Find … Continue reading →

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Do the minor mysteries of the cosmos add up? Dead Letter, a new Conni Massing play premieres at Workshop West

Posted on May 15, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the great theatre archive there’s no shortage of plays that involve mail, misdirected, stolen, forged. There are plays constructed entirely of exchanges of letters. Last year Irish Repertory Theatre in New York did an entire … Continue reading →

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Making The Debut: a new play by DJ Kena León debuts at RISER Edmonton

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Debut, the music-filled play premiering this week under the RISER Edmonton banner, lives up to its name in multiple ways, from multiple angles. For one thing, it marks the arrival in the world of theatre … Continue reading →

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On the road again: the Freewill Shakespeare Festival takes The Tempest to community league hockey rinks this summer

Posted on May 13, 2024 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,/ Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not….” The Tempest, Act III, scene 2 The Freewill Shakespeare Festival has taken its game resident playwright on … Continue reading →

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