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Review: The Ballad of Frank Allen
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Ballad of Frank Allen (Stage 13, Old Strathcona Public Library) In the international register of theatre premises (small-cast musical comedy division), here’s an entry that should get its own citation: what if a tiny man lived … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Al LaFrance, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Fringe comedy, Shane Adamczak, Weeping Spoon Productions
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Fringe review: Picnics at the Asylum
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Picnics at the Asylum (Stage 9, Telus Phone Museum) The eccentric character who gets conjured in this personal memoir is loud, colourful, fun-loving, generous with his affections. He loves his kids; they adore him. He sings … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela L. Neff, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Fringe solo shows, Stella Productions
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Fringe review: How I Learned To Hug
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca How I Learned To Hug (Stage 26, The Almanac) At the outset of his riotous one-man comedy/memoir How I Learned To Hug, the uniquely manic Australian performer Jon Bennett reveals the Montreal airport encounter when Security … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Jon Bennett, storytelling
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Fringe review: Edgar Allan
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Edgar Allan (Stage 38, Auditorium at Campus Saint-Jean) “Everything fun is a little bit dangerous,” proposes one of the eerie songs in Edgar Allan. Exactly. And here’s the show to prove it. In this unnerving little tale … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Cold Harts, Edgar Allan Poe, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Katie Hartman, Nick Ryan
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Fringe review: The Merkin Sisters
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The Merkin Sisters (Stage 1, Westbury Theatre) What is art? ask the fractious siblings jockeying for stage supremacy in this raucously inventive satire of contemporary performance art. The Merkin Sisters (Ingrid Hansen and Stéphanie Morin-Robert, expert … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Ingrid Hansen, performance art, Stéphanie Morin-Robert
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Fringe review: Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story
Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca There is an amiably homemade quality about Szeretlek: A Hungarian Love Story, a modest collage of family anecdotes about a post-war romance. In it, real-life couple … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Grand Salto Theatre
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A new adventure, fringe-style: two young actors are turning director at the Edmonton Fringe
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca One of the durable strengths of the Edmonton Fringe — something that sets it apart from the legion of fringe spin-offs across the continent — is its organic rooting in the theatre community here. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Brendan Gall, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Evan Hall, Fringe theatre, Kendra Connor, Matt Murray, Toronto Fringe
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Fringe review: Ain’t True and Uncle False
By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca Ain’t True And Uncle False (Stage 4, Academy at King Edward) Here’s a new concept in horticulture: “implied garden.” It’s Will Perjure’s creative Eden of upside-down wine bottles and painted cups, handles skyward, with the sign … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, Edmonton Fringe Festival, Paul Strickland, storytelling
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Fringe review: Staycation
Staycation (Stage 2, Backstage Theatre) By Liz Nicholls, 12thnight.ca The good thing about being a career conspiracist with a specialty in apocalypses is this: it just takes one. The downside: being right and getting vindicated has a major built-in glitch. … Continue reading
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Tagged 12thnight.ca, apocalyptic comedy, Edmonton Fringe Festival, physical comedy, White Collar Crimes Theatre
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