Author Archives: Liz Nicholls

What lies Beyond The Stage at the Citadel next season?

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the most playful and subversive theatrical experimenters in the world is coming to the Citadel’s alternative Beyond The Stage series next season. You’ll find the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour turning the pages of his … Continue reading →

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Teatro La Quindicina at 36: a new comedy starts the 2018 summer season this month

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Teatro La Quindicina turns 36 this summer with a season at the Varscona that includes two new Stewart Lemoine comedies. And the first them starts soon. The intriguing, unnerving premise of Lemoine’s The Finest of Strangers … Continue reading →

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A new Neil Grahn comedy headlines the upcoming 2018-2019 season at Shadow Theatre

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Shadow Theatre launches its upcoming 26th season with a new comedy about … comedy.  The inspiration for The Comedy Company, Edmonton playwright and sketch comedy star Neil Grahn, an artist of bluechip comic pedigree (he’s the … Continue reading →

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The modest dreams of the working class as farce: Fly Me To The Moon, a review

Posted on April 29, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Hold on just a moment there…” says one Irish home-care worker to another near the start of Fly Me To The Moon, by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones (Stones In His Pockets), the loopy little  comedy … Continue reading →

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The Silver Arrow: all-inclusive theatre at the Citadel, a review

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “There’s a story that’s waiting for you,” sing the ensemble in one of Hawksley Workman’s most lyrical songs in The Silver Arrow: The Untold Story Of Robin Hood. “The adventure will find you when you’re ready … Continue reading →

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Fun with the macabre: two veteran actors together at last in Fly Me To The Moon at Shadow Theatre

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “We’re two caregivers, two nobodies,” says Frances to Loretta in the dark-hued Irish comedy that opens tonight on the Varscona stage. In Fly Me To The Moon, by the Belfast playwright Marie Jones, an initiative that … Continue reading →

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She swings, she kicks, she flies: behind the legend a new Robin Hood for our time in The Silver Arrow at the Citadel

Posted on April 25, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

  By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca In the swashbuckler adventure extravaganza that premieres on, above, and around the Citadel’s Maclab stage Thursday, everything you thought you knew about a certain legendary 12th century outlaw hero (with a proclivity for the colour … Continue reading →

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“Changing time for you”: Infinity at Theatre Network, a review

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The downside of infinity, as the odd comic has noted, is that it’s really long getting to the end. But when does infinity start? That’s one of the intriguing questions that engages us in the highly … Continue reading →

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The siren call of the wild: Beth Graham’s Pretty Goblins, a review

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca “Something happened to me today,” says Lizzie in Pretty Goblins. “Something happens to everyone every day,” says her twin sister Laura. There it is, in a nutshell: the hard, maybe irreducible, human mystery at the crux of … Continue reading →

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Capturing time for the theatre: Hannah Moscovitch talks about Infinity

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Liz Nicholls

By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Time. It surrounds us, envelopes us, embeds us in a present that’s gone before you know it. It accumulates when you don’t want it and dwindles to nothing when you do. It keeps the past and … Continue reading →

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