Monthly Archives: August 2026

The scary funhouse of memory and identity: Fetch, a Fringe review

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Fetch (Stage 5, Acacia Hall) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Two women, in identical dresses, stand before us with identical cardboard boxes in this unnerving, tightly wound little 2018 thriller by the Edmonton playwright Cat Walsh, whose muse runs to dark … Continue reading →

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From history into a world of puppet poetry: the fascinating, elusive challenge of Object of Divinity

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Object of Divinity (Stage 3, Nordic Studio Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Object of Divinity is a strangely timeless and timely story that underpins this enigmatic human/puppet show by actor/playwright Calla Wright, with an electro-industrial score, created and performed live … Continue reading →

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Can these two connect in the darkness? Here’s a mysterious little gem that’s about that. Being Norwegian, a Fringe review

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Being Norwegian (Stage 22, The de Villars Jones LLP Stage at Holy Trinity Church By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This little gem of a two-hander by star Scottish playwright David Greig is something rare: a perfectly formed 45-minute rom-com where the … Continue reading →

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Singing and dancing with ghosts in a haunted, and haunting, musical: Ghost Quartet. A Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Ghost Quartet (stage 36, ArtsHub Ortona) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca This haunted, and haunting, musical invites us into an atmospheric lamp-lit bar under a spacious vault (the venue, as arranged by director/designer Jim Guedo is just right) where whiskey gets … Continue reading →

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I’ll have what she’s having (or not): Queens of Romance, a 12thnight Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Queens of Romance (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In Trevor Schmidt’s latest play for 100% More Girls, we’re in a pink-hued world (designer: Schmidt), at the finale event of the Hopeless Romantics’ seventh annual Love and Romance … Continue reading →

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Match-making at the Fringe: the hummable hilarity of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ROBOCOP The Musical. A Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ROBOCOP: The Musical (Stage 11, Varscona Theatre By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Here’s weird. If Rodgers and Hammerstein were such musical theatre big shots, with clout, how come “their most ambitious show ever” never made it to opening … Continue reading →

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Backstage at the underground: Shrute and Tungsta, a Fringe review

Posted on August 17, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Shrute and Tungsta (Stage 3, Nordic Studio Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Since the ‘80s, the underground’s kinda gone … underground. Wanna know where the diehard denizens have been been holding out? In the bathroom of a big Berlin techno … Continue reading →

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Begin Again. Martin Dockery: Forbidden City! returns to solo-storytelling form, a guest Fringe review by Fawnda Mithrush 

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Martin Dockery: Forbidden City! (Stage 1, ATB Westbury Theatre) By Fawnda Mithrush Couched in a story about a family trip to China is the kernel of Martin Dockery’s greatest hangup: Endings. Beginnings are easy enough: Starting over is less painful when … Continue reading →

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F*ck off, we’re STEEPING: Erika MacDonald: Tea TIME, a guest 12thnight Fringe review by Fawnda Mithrush

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

ERIKA MACDONALD: Tea TIME (Stage 28, Roots on Whyte) By Fawnda Mithrush One of life’s great comforts, tea is truly front and centre in this piece. It’s a good thing, too, because it’s a keen assurance of safety and comfort that … Continue reading →

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God is Sexy: Brother Love’s Good Time Gospel Hour sends up Jesus, Satan and Timothee Chalamet, a guest 12thnight Fringe review

Posted on August 16, 2026 by Liz Nicholls

Brother Love’s Good Time Gospel Hour (Stage 20, Mile Zero Dance Stage) By Fawnda Mithrush Playwright and frontman Noam Osband leads his congregation through an evangelical hot mess and singalong hour — we say ‘hot’ here because of the persistent metaphor … Continue reading →

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